Re: [ga] Increased foreign attendance
At 11:25 6/28/2007 -0400, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote: The fact they stopped is more a measure of the fact that ICANN wasn't listening to anything it didn't want to hear. I know that a large number of civil society groups decided at pretty much the same time that spending money trying to move ICANN was pouring money away. Well, I know differently. That makes us people with different knowledge, which is good. Now that we've shared it, we both have more knowledge. As for the RALOs they're so far from the Board's ear that one wonders whether anyone takes them seriously or if they're just there to let ICANN insiders bamboozle the press. Perhaps instead of spending time on this list, people with knowledge could contribute much better within the RALOs; however the problem is that at the RALOs there are new people, who don't have all this history behind them (you have noticed how some of "them" start each, or almost every, e-mail with the words "long time ago", or similar:), and that makes them not the usual negativists. veni
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