On 03/13/2010 05:14 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
With all due respect, if that's your understanding and position, I'm now extremely concerned that you have been selected to be ALAC's liaison to the board.
What kind of interests are you representing ?
I've had the unique experience of trying to vote on ICANN's board on behalf of about 330,000,000 people. I quickly realized that it is enormously difficult, impossible really, to digest the opinions and emotions of even a tiny part of such a community and turn it into a single vote. The way that I tried to do that job was to be very active in email and be available to talk. That way when I said something either stupid of ill advised there would usually someone (or many someones) who could tell me of my error. The key is to listen to that feedback, consider it, and be willing to change. And I kept a written, public, online record of my ICANN board votes and the reasoning behind each vote so that people could see how I tried to balance things - it is still online at http://www.cavebear.com/archive/icann-board/diary/index.htm Consequently I wouldn't be overly concerned with Vanda's statement - consider it an invitation to debate the point. Concern would exist if after several debates on several points it became clear that the matters raised were always being disregarded and dismissed without any chance that the original position might be altered. (Sometimes consideration of the push-back might not always result in a change of view.) --karl--