Re: [ga] ICANN Board unanimously approves .biz/.info/.org registry agreements by 13-0

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Veni and all,

  Please excuse me but I think you are confusing public multinational
consensus opinion and the GA list forum.  Indeed you are right that
the GA list forum is not the exclusive public multinational
consensus opinion indicator.  But it is one of a few forums by which
public multinational consensus opinion is and can be expressed
freely and directly.

  I also believe you and all of your fellow ICANN Bod members
have misconstrued that anyone on the GA list forum considers
it as the only means by which consensus was not in line with
these .biz/.info/.org   registry agreements.  Indeed many other
forums, blogs, and public watch dog groups did in advance
express their collective and detailed disagreements with the
.biz/.info/.org  registry agreement proposals prior to this
Bod vote, and hence where the %90+ against same was
derived.


Veni Markovski wrote:

> At 03:47 PM 11.12.2006 '?.'  +0100, Dominik Filipp wrote:
> >Veni an all,
> >
> >that's exactly the point. If over 90% comments are against the proposal
> >I don't understand how the proclaiming support for the bottom-up
> >consensus can hold any further.
>
> I have explaned several of my votes, which I consider very important
> in the last years. The explanations are at http://blog.veni.com , and
> also in the minutes. As for the percents, one thing I've learnt is
> that sometimes the percents are not really what matters - you see, in
> the so called socialist camp (yes, the world before 1989 was divided
> in "capitalist world", and "socialist camp" - I guess you can see the
> irony here), there were usually 99.2 % voting in favor of the ruling
> communist party. In the USA the majority of the people approved the
> war in Iraq. Etc, etc. Public opinion polls are not always the
> arguments that one has to listen to, when acting. I would have agreed
> with you, if I were a politican or a showman, who cares about his
> image. Since I am neither, and I had duties to the Internet community
> and ICANN, and not to the GA mailing list, I somehow do not feel the
> arguments of the majority were very compelling. By the way, obviously
> the same feelings were in all other directors, because people from
> all over the world voted the same way.
>
> Sincerely,
> Veni Markovski
> http://www.veni.com
>
> check also my blog:
> http://blog.veni.com

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