[governance] My blog on the Tuesday consultation

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

McTim and all,

  Here we disagree.  A case in point recently vis a vi ICANN.
See:  Warning: Crackdown on ICANN Travel Funding Abuse
http://www.icann.org/ombudsman/documents/repayment-expenses-report-17sep08.pdf


McTim wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> >
> > The technical community has some kind of distrust about spaces outside their
> > own ones, which, especially the policy oriented ones, are seen by them as
> > threatening to bring in statist control over the internet, which they (as
> > per their opinion) manage
>
> it is NOT their opinion that they "manage the Internet".  They manage
> Internet resources, standards processes, coordinate protocols
> assignments, etc.
>
> quite well. They do not think they need any, or
> > any further, political inputs,
>
> Then why do they spend so much time, effort and money on things like
> the WSIS/IGF/OECD/$_name??  I have to say that much of the bloat of
> the ICANN budget that some on this list complain about so bitterly
> comes from such efforts.
>
> Why is it that when a group of people all have the same opinion on
> something, we assume there is a conspiracy?  Maybe they just share the
> same view?
>
> What if, say, someone were to blog and accuse you and Milton and
> Russia and China, et. al., of coordinating efforts on this issue, it
> would be unfair, wouldn't it?  Appearances can be deceiving.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> mctim.blogspot.com
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