On 08/06/2015 08:39 PM, Greg Shatan wrote:
This is not intended to be a roadblock. Quite the opposite. But dashing off a sentence and then "see you in Dublin" is not going to work. We need to put some work in now. It shouldn't be that hard and it shouldn't take months, but it also shouldn't be that easy to change the ICANN bylaws either.
Stop agreeing with me! (Or rather, keep it up!).
I'm willing to put the work in now.#
Me too.
We cannot adopt a bylaws change on the basis of "caveat emptor." (A little Latin always elevates a discussion....)
My generation is the last to have been taught Latin routinely at school (mid 1970s). But when I did my law school studies (2004-2008), the use of Latin was was comprehensively deprecated, following the Woolf reforms. So (major cultural difference ahead), to me, a little Latin serves to isolate and exclude. And as both Denning and Steinbeck showed us in their different fields: very simple English can be the most elegant and accessible. (If you haven't come across it before, do please read Denning in dissentia in Miller -v- Jackson). nigel