Re: [ga] Veni, Vidi, Wiki

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok. I've been harsh. It just gets frustrating. Veni, the frustration got
here long before you arrived. So I apologize for any personal remarks I made
to you. Its not personal. However, one can be appointed to the board and
bcome either "A part of ICANN' or as an "Agent of change within ICANN" and I
believe we need more of the latter.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "George Kirikos" <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] Veni, Vidi, Wiki


> Let's not be to harsh.  Being on ICANN's board is rather a difficult act
> of juggling.
>
> When I was on the board I found myself in a rather strange position -
> although I could speak for myself I could not speak for the corporation.
>   This meant that I had to be very careful to make it clear that I was
> offering *my* opinion and *my* perspective and *my* intention.  And in
> my online "diary" of what I had done on the board I was careful to try
> to indicate what I had done and not what others had said or opined.
>
> I felt quite it rather odd to be in a position in which I was called
> upon to try to articulate the internet needs and goals of nearly
> 400,000,000 people.
>
> Electronic discussion is a very dangerous art - a few slips of the
> keyboard and people get angry or read things into text that were not
> intended.  And once people start to get these kinds of perceptions, it
> is very hard to bring the discussion back into focus.  Direct
> face-to-face talks are far less likely to go awry.
>
> And we speak many different languages.  We need to always remember that
> not all of us use English with perfection, so we ought to always beware
> that our words might be misunderstood, or that the connotations might be
> rather different.
>
> That's why these e-mail discussions need to be taken slowly, with lots
> of interaction to ensure that we really understand one another.  That
> can be frustrating, and people may feel as if they are being attacked
> when it is merely an attempt to clarify a point.  So it is important to
> be gentle.
>
> These kinds of things are hard - I know that I violate these precepts
> far too often.
>
> What we really need is for there to be ICANN meetings that have
> absolutely no business content - the sole purpose should be for us to
> get together, meet face-to-face, share meals and good wine (for those
> who drink alcohol), and otherwise get to know the people behind the
> email addresses.  (We'd probably discover that we somehow managed to
> accomplish a lot of business without really trying.)
>
> --karl--
>
>
>
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