Re: [ga] A Fool's Paradise

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree somewhat Brett, except that in 2006 having half the board be elected 
should not still be considered a "long-term" goal.

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bret Fausett" <bfausett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <GA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:36 AM
Subject: RE: [ga] A Fool's Paradise


> > 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