Jacqueline and all my friends, Good point and one that I am sure ICANN fully supports, which is why despite personal beliefs, a vote on proposals, formal or non-formal needs to be taken. Silence may sometimes be golden, but is often misunderstood or misinterpreted. What's worse however is the users don't yet now, nor have ever had a voice or a vote within the ICANN structure, nor have Independant Registrants whom indirectly provide the lions share of ICANN's financial support. Such is the existing and inherant poor structure of ICANN and has been sense it's very conception. Jacqueline Morris wrote:
HI Veni I agree with you and Izumi, and I also note that I think this is partially why LAC hasn't made a lot of statements - not enough consent or participation to say - yes, we agree or no, we don't. If there is silence or little involvement on a topic, then individual statements are made, not a group one.(like NTIA JPA comment discussion recently)
On Feb 18, 2008 6:36 AM, Veni Markovski <veni@veni.com> wrote:
As another non-native English speaker, I agree with Izumi. The US-centric perception that if someone is silent, then they agree with the American point of view is just that - a perception, but not a reality. In many cultures we'll stay quiet as a sign of disagreement.
veni
On Feb 18, 2008 3:53 AM, Izumi AIZU <iza@anr.org> wrote:
as an old time at ALAC, and non-English speaking people, I don't think silence is agreement at all, and it never was the norm either unless it was called many times for consent.
often, I ignore the things that do not make sense or worth to bother my precious time - and I know many of my colleagues have similar attitude. unfortunate, maybe, but we are busy in doing our own work in professional manners and those things go outside of our cotrol, let them be. we have no luxury of time to waste.
izumi
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