[governance] Is ICANN listening?

Jeanette Hofmann jeanette at wzb.eu
Thu Jul 30 01:48:43 EDT 2009


Hi, can you please take discussions about the GA list elsewhere and also 
stop attacking members of the IG caucus?
Thank you. Jeanette

Eric Dierker wrote:
> Sorry, Not the first time I did not check. Mia Culpa, my bad.
>  
> Our cool netiquette rules have been developed over a good period of 
> time.  They are not nonsense.  In a very real respect/aspect they are as 
> important as our Net Gov. of Protocals and Addressing.  While sometimes 
> passion and conviction seem to require a breach of common courtesy it 
> should never be the rule. We should all endeavor to share a mutual 
> respect by abiding by civil society decency in communication.
>  
> A very poor and not so bright man once spoke; "if only my neighbor could 
> to me, and I could to her, be fair, honest and courteous, I scarcely say 
> there would be little need for government or laws"  (ed - to a Jury, in 
> a murder trial 1986)
>  
> A big thank you to all those who monitor and domo, the world is a better 
> place for your efforts.
>  
> Eric
> 
> --- On *Wed, 7/29/09, Lucy Lynch /<llynch at civil-tongue.net>/* wrote:
> 
> 
>     From: Lucy Lynch <llynch at civil-tongue.net>
>     Subject: Re: [governance] Is ICANN listening?
>     To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Eric Dierker"
>     <cogitoergosum at sbcglobal.net>
>     Cc: "Avri Doria" <avri at acm.org>
>     Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 3:44 PM
> 
>     On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Eric Dierker wrote:
> 
>      > Well that is very nice Avri.  And I agree with much of what you
>     say.  However their are two people who were regular contributors
>     suspended/censored from the list.  There are no recognized monitors
>     and the majordomo is hidden. That is all on you. YOU censored them.
>     but with nothing open and transparent.  So your talk is not
>     consistent with your actions as is the case generally with the GNSO.
>     Your governmental process is backroom and by fiat.   So you really
>     do epitomize ICANNs lack of accountability and ability to do and say
>     opposite things.
> 
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>      > --- On Wed, 7/29/09, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org
>     <http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=avri@acm.org>> wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      > From: Avri Doria <avri at acm.org
>     <http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=avri@acm.org>>
>      > Subject: Re: [governance] Is ICANN listening?
>      > To: "Governance List" <governance at lists.cpsr.org
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>      > Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 10:44 AM
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>      >
>      >
>      > On 29 Jul 2009, at 03:35, cogitoergosum at sbcglobal.net
>     <http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=cogitoergosum@sbcglobal.net>
>     wrote:
>      >
>      >> it is not up to the participants in the GA to keep it running it
>     is up to you.
>      >
>      > I take that as the responsibility to make sure the list stays up
>     and remains orderly, for some definition of orderly.
>      > Additionally I take it as my responsibility to read that list on
>     a regular basis.
>      >
>      > The list is up, it functions, it is moderately orderly and I read
>     it regularly.
>      >
>      >
>      > I do not think that responsibility extends to trying to make that
>     list anything more then a list where people who subscribe and wish
>     to comment on ICANN related issues can do so in peace. In fact,
>     without a decision of the GNSO Council approved by the ICANN Board,
>     I would see trying to change the list as out of scope for me.  That
>     is, I do not see my responsibility as being one of trying to make
>     the GA list re-evolve into anything resembling what the GA was meant
>     to be before it was decimated in the transition from DNSO to GNSO
>     without a proper policy process - too many people in ICANN already
>     usurp the right to make policy without proper process, and I am not
>     about to become one of them  If the list wants to be more then a
>     list or wants to spin off real organizations then it is the
>     responsibility of those on that list to do so, and I would not
>     hinder that effort.
>      >
>      > In a few months I will no longer be a member of the GNSO Council
>     (I can hear some people already rejoicing in the background!).  At
>     that point I will remain a member of the GA list, and at that point,
>     if I want that list to be something more then a basket for
>     complaints then it will be become my responsibility as a member of
>     the list to try and do something.  Until then, I am just one of the
>     caretakers of the GA list who keep it running and nothing more.
>      >
>      > a.
>      >
>      >
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