On 2/8/07, John L <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
I hope you saw the message that Danny Younger sent out earlier this morning, in which he reports on his experience that people tend to focus on the meta-discussions of organizing and never get to the actual issues. This is the exact rathole that you are diving down. Please, accept the possibility that the experience of everyone who has done this before is relevant here, and that there are valid reasons that I and other people with ICANN experience are opposed to repeating courses of action that have only lead to failure.
Like I've been saying, if you want to do stuff, do it. You don't need a RALO. In fact, given all the baggage that ICANN brings with it, if you are interested in Internet issues other than what domains go in the root, you're much better off doing your organizing without ICANN's distractions.
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com
I'm glad you have a sense of humor here. Simple rebuttal: When in the course of human events we find it necessary to deal with a range of issues very connected with ICANN but not exclusive to ICANN, we may find it necessary to follow some of the guidelines of the ALAC process and form this structure, making use of this RALO structure to accomplish our ends, so as to avoid the criticism that, as an outside structure we have not followed their ICANN-ALAC process.. You have not stated with any clarity why the RALO should not be undertaken in this way, and it is clear to me that this is the only why or way of organizing the RALO. Again, if you don't think this is worth it, what do you fear from it's formation? Do you really wish to save us from ourselves? Do you wish to spare us some fiction? Please.... if you don't believe in it, don't obstruct. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Director, CTCNet Chicago Chapter Co-Founder, Chicago Digital Access Alliance Co-Chair, Illinois Community Technology Coalition President, Association For Community Networking Support the efforts of the Chicago Digital Access Alliance: http://www.digitalaccessalliance.org