Jordan

On Friday, 27 May 2016, Goran Marby <goran.marby@icann.org> wrote:

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Goran

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> On May 27, 2016, at 17:45, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
>> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:36:04PM +1000, Chris Disspain wrote:
>>
>> This has been a long, arduous and at times emotional
>> process. Through all of the debate, discussion, disagreement,
>> compromise and journey to consensus there have been many ups and
>> downs but I have never failed to be anything other than impressed
>> and sometimes overwhelmed by the commitment of those who chose to be
>> involved and who have gave their time and effort selflessly to this
>> process.
>
> I of course want to express my joy that we have crossed this milestone
> and my congratulations and thanks to everyone involved. But also, I
> want to emphasise something in what Chris says above.
>
> Doing things in the sort of open ways that the various Internet
> operational communities do is hard work. Feelings run high, and
> because we work on the Internet and in full view of everyone it takes
> a great deal of personal discipline and good will for people to come
> to compromises. And yet, over and over again, the community delivers.
> "Awesome" is a much-overused word, but if ever I have felt awe it is
> in response to the ability of people from many different backgrounds
> and points of view, and with divergent needs, to come together in the
> best interests of the Internet.
>
> When I was in Washington earlier this week, there were a couple times
> when I thought the line of questioning contained an underlying
> implication: that you can't _really_ trust this sort of important
> responsibility to an amorphous bunch of people on the Internet. But
> the Internet works because of the way we work things out. We forge
> proposals and build the future in the furnace of public discussion.
> The Internet functions for everybody partly because everybody is
> invited to help make it function.
>
> We do, together, what none separately could do. The doubters will
> continue to deride our ways as naïve and amateur, but our ways -- of
> coming to consensus and constantly respecting the value of that
> consensus -- give our results both effectiveness and the greatest
> legitimacy. I am enormously grateful to be part of what can only
> properly be called a global community.
>
> Best regards,
>
> A
>
> --
> Andrew Sullivan
> ajs@anvilwalrusden.com
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