[governance] Re: Nomcom and conflict of interest

[McTim]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer
<bortzmeyer at internatif.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:45:43PM -0400,
>  George Sadowsky <george.sadowsky at attglobal.net> wrote
>  a message of 92 lines which said:
>
>> Beyond that, I don't think any group claims to represent the
>> Internet community in any formal sense.
>
> Several groups *claim* to do so. ISOC, ICANN, the RIRs, often say they
> represent "the community" (a term as broad and as meaningless as
> "civil society").

If it's meaningless, then how would the NomCom know who to exclude,
since they didn't have a list to work from?  Do you think it was a
case of "we can't tell you who we are excluding, but we will know them
if we see their names?"

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim
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