At 09:38 AM 1/11/99 -0800, Patrick Greenwell wrote: >On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Dave Farber wrote: > >> What this means is that the Board members are unwilling to expose their >> reasons and process to public view. Funny I seem to remember having >> effective decision making done in open meetings. If it is the publics >> business then let it be done in public. > >You will get no argument from me on this point. The only persons I have >heard defending this position has been the ICANN board itself, IBM(in >Boston), and perhaps some of the other "unamed third parties" that the >ICANN board has been meeting with who will not self identify. > >To the ICANN board: THIS DOES NOT ENGENDER TRUST. I was in Aero-space, Hughes Aircraft Company (HAC), at the time that many DoD contractors got slammed for dirty-dealing and failing to meet accountability obligations, a la Air Force contract requirements. This was in the mid to late '80's. Lots of accusations and legal work was hitting the fan. HAC came out relatively unscathed. Why, one might ask? Because they had instituted a policy and education campaign that basically said the following, almost verbatim; "We must not only avoid wrong-doing, we must also avoid the very appearance of wrong-doing." This is a very high standard, certainly beyond legal requirements. What this policy engenders is trust over time. As long as such a policy is in place, from the top-level, and educated/enforced, then accusations of embezzelment, at a corporate level, are seen as ludicrous. I would never dream of HAC selling the USG $50K screw-drivers, whereas I would certainly consider this from General Dynamics. Although we sometimes fall short, I believe that ORSC tries to live up to this. What is disturbing is that ICANN doesn't even try and they admit that nor does DNSO.ORG, IMHO. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer - e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet phone: hawk.lvrmr.mhsc.com Personal web pages: http://staff.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: http://www.mhsc.com ___________________________________________________ I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing... -- Thomas Jefferson __________________________________________________ To receive the digest version instead, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___END____________________________________________
