RE: [ga] [Fwd: [address-policy-wg] ICANN Ratifies Global Policy for Allocation of IPv6 Address Space]

["Michael D. Palage" <Michael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

As I tried to articulate earlier, all it takes is one over the top post
to undermine a hundred otherwise valid comments. I tried to gently raise
this issue in connection with a previous post by George where he talked
about firing all the senior staff at the next Board retreat.

Although I did not always agree with all of my fellow Board directors, I
generally held most of them in the highest regard.

My first Board meeting was in Tunisia and it lasted all of about 45
minutes, with the Board reading through resolutions with no discussions
and unanimous votes. Well in the three years I served on the Board I saw
much more substantive discussion both during the Board's private and
public sessions. It was unheard of for directors to file dissenting
opinions in connection with certain votes. 

Now you are free to say that these changes are meaningless, but having
been on both sides of the fence I can tell you that things are slowly
changing in the right direction. In the coming weeks the Nominating
Committee will have the opportunity to continue that change in a
positive direction. You are free to continue chastising a Board member
who takes the time and effort to read and respond to this list, or
perhaps you can try to engage him in an intelligent dialog and get him
to see a perspective that he/she might not otherwise appreciate.

The choice is yours.

Best regards,

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Veni Markovski
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 4:23 PM
To: kidsearch; Karl Auerbach; Thomas Narten
Cc: Martin Hannigan; General Assembly of the DNSO
Subject: Re: [ga] [Fwd: [address-policy-wg] ICANN Ratifies Global Policy
for Allocation of IPv6 Address Space] 


Thomas,
welcome to the club!

The moment you respond with something they don't like, they "salute" 
you. As for the people who spend time here - there are different
options:

a) they really care about the Internet, and spend time in good will
b) they have some business around domain names, and thus what happens 
around ICANN influences their business a lot
c) they are members of the ICANN Board or staff, who indeed spend a 
lot of time here, and have no business that depends on ICANN decisions
d) etc.

Some of these people do not need information from the source. Some of 
them want guidance. Either way, the ICANN people are guilty - 
regardless what the question or contribution is.



At 02:24 PM 13.9.2006 '?.'  -0400, kidsearch wrote:
>Oh yes Thomas, we forgot how grateful we should be that you grace us 
>with your presence every time you post. Please allow me this 
>opportunity to say what a wonderful contribution you have made and how 
>much we all appreciate you coming here and spending any of your 
>valuable time with those here who are only on the list to waste the 
>time of such important people like yourself.
>
>Thomas people on this list voluntarily spend time on these issues. If 
>you think it is a waste of your time because you don't always hear what

>you want to hear, then may I suggest you build a myspace account and go

>ask people to be your friend.</sarcasm>
>
>Chris McElroy aka NameCritic
>


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

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