See below.
At 10:03 AM 1/11/99 -0800, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Richard J. Sexton wrote:
>
>> Charlie's observation at the Boston ICANN meeting was that the ICANN
>> board, coming from the corporate world, did now know how to operate
>> in an open environment.
>
>I love transcripts. From the Boston meeting with thanks to the Berkman
>Center(http://cyber.harvard.edu/icann/archive/transtransparency.html):
>
> MR. NESSON: Well, may I interpret the
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> 4 question and see if I can elicit something more
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> 5 from it from the Board? The question is, how
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> 6 comfortable are you actually operating in the
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> 7 open? And it can be carried through not just to a
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> 8 question of corporate minutes and corporate
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> 9 meetings, but to your full role as director of the
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> 10 corporation. In a sense, openness is part of the
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> 11 art of living, in some way. So, for example, I
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> 12 find that my e-mail is a key part of the actual
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> 13 transactional world that I'm now in, and I feel
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> 14 that ICANN, if you're doing the job, is doing
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> 15 something historical.
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> 16 So the question would be, at what point
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> 17 does your e-mail get archived and become public?
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> 18 At what point do we see the thought process that
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> 19 actually goes into whatever that screen is that
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> 20 requires just enough delay to be practical, and
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> 21 how fully does the screen come down? Who wants to
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> 22 answer?
At this point MR. KRAAIJGNBRINK's face appeared on a 12 foot high
video screen; he was visibly disturbed.
> 23 MR. KRAAIJGNBRINK: Well, I can try to
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> 24 answer it, at least in part. I do not agree that
> 1 the Board, up to now (inaudible) the adoption of
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> 2 the by-laws, and you will find both (inaudible)
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> 3 you'll find the reasoning of our decisions and the
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> 4 reasoning behind (inaudible). If you would insist
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> 5 on total transparency, which, to me, then would
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> 6 mean that every Board meeting would have to be
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> 7 (inaudible) of secretive meetings --
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> 8 AUDIENCE: Why?
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> 9 MR. KRAAIJGNBRINK: Why? Because a
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> 10 decision-making process cannot be done in full
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> 11 public.
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> 12 AUDIENCE: What?
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> 13 AUDIENCE: Why?
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> 14 AUDIENCE: What?
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> 15 MR. KRAAIJGNBRINK: The United States
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> 16 government does not --
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> 17 AUDIENCE: C-Span?
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> 18 MR. KRAAIJGNBRINK: -- the United
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> 19 States government does not meet in public. The
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> 20 executive meetings are not in public, at least
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> 21 (inaudible). The government reports on the
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> 22 results and explains them reasonably. And I
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> 23 believe that's what's (inaudible), because the
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> 24 Board is a body, the Board is not a collection of
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> 1 individuals. And what you (inaudible) have to
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> 2 reckon with is that we came from many different
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> 3 directions, from many regions in the world, even,
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> 4 and even amongst ourselves, we have to have a
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> 5 learning process to come to fully reasoned and
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> 6 reasonable decisions. So --
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> 7 MR. NESSON: But Hans --
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> 8 MR. KRAAIJGNBRINK: -- as I said -- as
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> 9 I said before --
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> 10 MR. NESSON: Hans --
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> 11 MR. KRAAIJGNBRINK: -- you're asking
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> 12 for the new clothes of the emperor, which is
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> 13 running naked.
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> 14 MR. NESSON: But Hans, isn't it just
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> 15 possible that the learning process is exactly a
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> 16 process of learning to live more in the open?
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> 17 MR. KRAAIJGNBRINK: I think the
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> 18 movement in this would be two ways. I believe
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> 19 that the -- I believe that the working of the
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> 20 Board will be more transparent than it has been up
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> 21 to today.
Couldn't be less, now could it ?
Do people think it is more transparent that it was back then ?
--
"To find out what your opponent is up to, look at what he
says about you" - unknown
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