For a more recent explanation of the workings of Governments (and governing bodies should take note), may I suggest a UK Series "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" which has been qualified by many as being a documentary about government, rather than comedy._______________________________________________
For a few relevant snippets to our conversation:
What is government:
https://youtu.be/cIYfiRyPi3o
and
excuses:
https://youtu.be/6Y4PEqvk0Jg
Of course I recommend you get the whole series to watch. Then you'll be much less bothered about how slow ICANN is.
Kindest regards,
Olivier
On 30/12/2021 19:16, Karl Auerbach via At-Large wrote:
On 12/30/21 10:01 AM, Hank Nussbacher via At-Large wrote:
3. ... based on my experience with ICANN processes, a 4 month delay is a mere second in ICANN time. I would start complaining only after 4 years.
An apt summary of the speed of ICANN procedures may be found in the works of Charles Dickens, most particularly Chapter 10 of Little Dorrit: "Containing the whole Science of Government" (See https://www.cavebear.com/archive/cavebear/containing_the_whole_science_of_government.html )
Here are the first two paragraphs:
The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the most important Department under Government. No public business of any kind could possibly be done at any time without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office. Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart. It was equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the plainest wrong without the express authority of the Circumlocution Office. If another Gunpowder Plot had been discovered half an hour before the lighting of the match, nobody would have been justified in saving the parliament until there had been half a score of boards, half a bushel of minutes, several sacks of official memoranda, and a family-vault full of ungrammatical correspondence, on the part of the Circumlocution Office.
This glorious establishment had been early in the field, when the one sublime principle involving the difficult art of governing a country, was first distinctly revealed to statesmen. It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carry its shining influence through the whole of the official proceedings. Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving--HOW NOT TO DO IT.
--karl--
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