[governance] Re: A warning

[David Goldstein]

Izumi et al,

I'm not really concerned about a warning as the list is rather ineffective and 
barking up trees to no avail. It seems the group wants to "caucus", for example, 
a totally inappropriate term given my dictionary defines caucus as "(a  meeting 
of) a small group of people in a political party or  organisation who have a lot 
of influence, or who have similar interests." This list is not a political party 
and I haven't seen it yet to have any influence, let alone a lot of influence. 
Maybe people have a similar interest, but they have no influence. As my contacts 
in internet governance circles comment, this list is not taken seriously and 
won't be. I guess the people have similar interests...

So consider this my resignation and please delete me from the list. I'll miss 
posts from Milton, Wolfgang, Avri and a couple of other thoughtful people, but 
alas, it's not enough to sustain the pointless babble that this list goes on 
with.

It's a shame, this list has the potential to be an interesting discussion of 
ideas, but is so caught up with navel-gazing it achieves next to nothing.


David



----- Original Message ----
From: Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org>
To: David Goldstein <goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au>
Sent: Wed, 12 January, 2011 1:22:52 AM
Subject: A warning

Dear David,

As a co-coordinator of the IGC, I would like to remind you of our Charter,
http://www.igcaucus.org/charter
especially, on the "Posting Rules for the IGC" section.

Please read the rule and follow them. Some of the members expressed
the concern that you have repeated "uncivil" behavior. One recent example
is copied below.

As the coordinator, I am taking the first step defined in the Carter -
to warn you
privately.

As professionals please let's try to abide the rule mutually agreed so that
we could have more productive discussion and activities together.

Thank you for your kind consideration,

izumi



Begin forwarded message:

> From: David Goldstein <goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au>
> Date: January 9, 2011 7:51:55 AM EST
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>, Don Cameron 
><dg_cameron at bigpond.com>
> Subject: Re: [governance] Phase 2 of improvements to the IGC Web site
> Reply-To: governance at lists.cpsr.org,David Goldstein 
><goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au>
>
> This process is absurd Jeremy and makes a mockery any sort of a democracy.
>
> It seems like empire building for the sake of empire building. Ten year old 
>kids couldn't make more of a mess of this in organising a school play club. 
>Actually, they'd do a much better job.
>
> Additionally, if "the current membership list is on the basis of those who 
>voted in the last election," what happens to those who did not vote for whatever 
>reason?
>
> David




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