RE: [ga] Proposal: New Cross-constituency mailing list

[jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Danny and all,

  Yes, I was once a member of the BC until they
changed their policies regarding openness and transparency.
One of reasonable consideration has to wonder why
they did so.  The answers I and others got at the
time were cryptic, argumentative, and few.  

-----Original Message-----
>From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jul 7, 2007 3:34 PM
>To: Debbie Garside <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx, ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Cc: kieren.mccarthy@xxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [ga] Proposal: New Cross-constituency mailing list
>
>Hi Debbie,
>
>George hails from the Business Constituency wherein:
>
>"The moderator is charged with providing a value-added
>service with an objective to make BC e-mail lists
>desirable to read by time-pressed business members by
>minimising the unnecessary and untidy correspondence
>characteristic of certain e-mail lists within the
>ICANN world."
>
>The BC has always excelled in exclusionary practices
>preferring closed constituency-based Task Forces that
>they could control over open-to-the-public Working
>Groups (that invariably produced results not to their
>liking).
>
>In spite of ICANN bylaws that require constituencies
>to "operate to the maximum extent feasible in an open
>and transparent manner", the BC refuses to maintain a
>publicly archived discussion list.  
>
>Their regard for the unaffiliated (such as you) is as
>low as their regard for the ICANN bylaws.  Don't let
>it bother you... it takes all kinds to make a world.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>--- Debbie Garside <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi George
>> 
>> I agree, there is a lot of list noise.  What would
>> your proposal mean for
>> the average list member (like me)?  Exclusion?
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> Debbie
>> 
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>> > [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
>> George Kirikos
>> > Sent: 07 July 2007 18:25
>> > To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Cc: kieren.mccarthy@xxxxxxxxx
>> > Subject: [ga] Proposal: New Cross-constituency
>> mailing list
>> > 
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> > Given the current low signal:noise ratio of the GA
>> list, I 
>> > propose that a new mailing list be created.
>> Membership would 
>> > only be permitted to:
>> > 
>> > 1) Currentr regular members of each of the GNSO 
>> > Constituencies (with membership verified by each
>> constituency)
>> > 2) ICANN staff/board/nominating committee
>> > 
>> > Essentially, it would become an "expanded" version
>> of the 
>> > GNSO Council mailing list 
>> > 
>> >
>>
>http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/
>> > 
>> > without all the "noise" of this list.
>> > 
>> > Sincerely,
>> > 
>> > George Kirikos
>> > http://www.kirikos.com/
>> > 
>> > 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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