Re: [ga] A Fool's Paradise

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bret and all,

  You are too kind Bret, but I understand you to be a gentle person
and a wise man.  I however and not so gentle yet wise.

  Let's also try to recall back in 1998 as now, some Bod members
than are Bod members now.  Hence allowing grace towards ICANN
for failing to deliver as promised in 1998 then and now for a "vital At
Large membership, which would elect 9 of the Board's 18 seats"
cannot be replaced with RALO's and adequately have representation
of any and all stakeholders.

  It is also a fact that not knowing the history of ICANN by it's
current Bod and staff members is no excuse for inadequacy.  Hence
the subject line of this thread still applies and is still appropriate.

Bret Fausett wrote:

> > An ICANN RALO -- see
> > http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-22nov06.htm
>
> For those of us who have been working with ICANN since its beginning in
> 1998, we all wanted to see a strong, vital At Large membership, which would
> elect 9 of the Board's 18 seats. That was the ICANN that was supposed to
> have been produced by the White Paper process and the ICANN called for by
> the original ICANN Bylaws. At one point in 1999, ICANN's Board Chair even
> testified before Congress that the election of half the Board by the
> Internet's end users was ICANN's highest priority.
>
> We all know it didn't work out that way, and there are villains aplenty on
> which to place the blame.
>
> But I would ask everyone not to discredit the people who came to ICANN
> later, who know little about this history, and now are working to build
> these RALOs and ICANN At Large Structures. This is valuable work, even if it
> falls far short of our longer term goals.
>
>          Bret

Regards and have a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving,

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