Re: [ga] GA irrelevant

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can decide yourself. If you are a real person and you post to the GA you
have the right to vote. Simple as that. Unfortunately or fortunately
depending on your point of view the ultimate rulers of the GA are you
yourselves Mr. Palmer a.k.a Baxter. The process is prescribed in the rules
of this General Assembly.

But ICANN which is contracted to provide us with the facilities to elect a
chairman won't provide voting facilities as they agreed to under the rules
to facilitate an election.

So were in limbo. Hugh is chair until such time as he either abandons his
position or is replaced by election. And I am king of the hill - the last
remaining monitor on the GA. A powerful position I do my best to ignore.
Look at the insanity that happened with Debbie.

So until we get the vote I guess things remain much as they are since ICANN
has never been in "charge" of this list. They tried at great expense to
their own !doctors to kill us. It failed.

We are a very important list right now. The last place where ordinary people
have a voice in ICANN. It's a good place to be.

regards
joe


On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Thomas Baxter <baxtertms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Then who can decide - is ICANN leaving the list out in the wind for
> purpose? I cant understand that they wont come in a shut off holey joe
> crakpott.
>
> I think they want to make us unimportant and hope joe messes up
> the list with his crap so it makes us look bad and they can say - oh
> those domain customers are bad and just fight all of the time.
>
> Hey joe, do you get proud that now once again you are making it bad
> again for more people in the DNS just like in Holland five years ago?
>
> Can ALL OF YOU SEE THIS? ARE YOU BLIND PERSONS OR WHAT IS
> THE PROBLEM HERE? WHY DO YOU SUPPORT THIS TERRORIST??
>
> Thoms
>
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> ------------------------------
> *From:* Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* Joop Teernstra <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Cc:* Roberto Gaetano <roberto@xxxxxxxxx>; sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Wed, April 28, 2010 8:50:51 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [ga] GA irrelevant
>
> The reason the GA has become irrelevant is because we don't have the power
> to vote. And you guys who have the right to vote - under the rules - don't
> demand it. ICANN who is supposed to facilitate voting for a replacement for
> chair refuses to provide us what we need and ICANN is obligated to provide -
> i.e. a voting booth ;)
>
> Thats the problem with the GA. The support we need to move forward is not
> provided.
>
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Joop Teernstra 
> <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear Roberto,
>>
>> I agree with you that it is a shame how the GA has become irrelevant.
>>
>> However, the activity of the remaining posters on this list and its poor
>> signal/noise ration is a symptom of this, not the cause.
>>
>
> we need to vote in a chair so I can be replaced as monitor as per the
> rules. Eric has served his term - he has called for elections. ICANN however
> has failed to provide the voting facility. Again - hint hint.
>
>>
>> Those who have actively resisted registrant representation should accept
>> the symptoms and side-effects of incapacitating  at-large stakeholders.
>>
>
> Exactly. We need to be empowered. We need a vote. We need our voice back -
> or lets just get us a voting booth and bypass ICANN - hint hint - who luvs
> ya now ;)
>
> And we are going to have to ask ourselves a question "do we want to give
> roB0ts the vote"? You know what I'm talking about.
>
>
>>
>> Do you have a proposal to make the GA more relevant again in ICANN policy
>> setting?
>>
>
> No. Your being kind to Roberto. I know that and you know that. All we need
> is the ability to vote us a chair - that is our RIGHT under the rules of
> this assembly. Am I right - or AM I RIGHT. It's elementary - we need to
> vote. Roberto is part of the problem that denies us the vote. They are
> afraid we might take ourselves seriously and make demands. Remember the GA
> is part of a proud legacy of ICANN f??k ups - pardon le france.
>
> ICANN is stuck with us - so why don't we do something amazing and demand
> our voting rights. Or take them to some other voting booth. Am I right. Let
> see what happens.
>
> hmmmm :0
>
> regards
> joe baptista
>
>


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