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

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your analogy holds no merit at all Veni. Governments are not bound by 
agreements that state they must make decisions based on a bottom-up 
consensus. It is directly opposite of how government runs. ICANN is not a 
government Veni, so analogies like that only show you do not understand the 
process you were involved in. As for the other directors, it shows the same 
about them.

It is you people that want to run it like a government, not the user 
community. But if you choose analogies based on governments, at least the 
people get a vote. The representatives in government were elected not 
selected. As a director of ICANN, you did not even have the RIGHT to go 
against the consensus.

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic
http://www.articlecontentprovider.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Veni Markovski" <veni@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Dominik Filipp" <dominik.filipp@xxxxxxxx>; "Veni Markovski" 
<veni@xxxxxxxx>; "icann board address" <icann-board@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "General Assembly of the DNSO" <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 11:39 AM
Subject: RE: [ga] ICANN Board unanimously approves .biz/.info/.org registry 
agreements by 13-0


> 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