RE: [ga] ICANN Board unanimously approves .biz/.info/.org registry agreements by 13-0

[Veni Markovski <veni@xxxxxxxx>]

At 03:47 PM 11.12.2006 '?.'  +0100, Dominik Filipp wrote:
> Veni an all,
>
> that's exactly the point. If over 90% comments are against the proposal
> I don't understand how the proclaiming support for the bottom-up
> consensus can hold any further.

I have explaned several of my votes, which I consider very important 
in the last years. The explanations are at http://blog.veni.com , and 
also in the minutes. As for the percents, one thing I've learnt is 
that sometimes the percents are not really what matters - you see, in 
the so called socialist camp (yes, the world before 1989 was divided 
in "capitalist world", and "socialist camp" - I guess you can see the 
irony here), there were usually 99.2 % voting in favor of the ruling 
communist party. In the USA the majority of the people approved the 
war in Iraq. Etc, etc. Public opinion polls are not always the 
arguments that one has to listen to, when acting. I would have agreed 
with you, if I were a politican or a showman, who cares about his 
image. Since I am neither, and I had duties to the Internet community 
and ICANN, and not to the GA mailing list, I somehow do not feel the 
arguments of the majority were very compelling. By the way, obviously 
the same feelings were in all other directors, because people from 
all over the world voted the same way.




Sincerely,
Veni Markovski
http://www.veni.com

check also my blog:
http://blog.veni.com