On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 11:57:34PM -0800, Ellen Rony wrote:
> Kent Crispin wrote:
> >- the selection process was a distributed search -- nobody involved
> >knew all the players, or what everyone was doing
>
> I cut all the cc's. You can add 'em back if you want.
>
> After a summer of international meetings in 1998, people believed that the
> selection of the interim NewCo board would be made by a PUBLIC process.
Some truly naive people may have believed that. The political
realities were that the people would have to be hand-selected, however.
> Indeed, names were suggested on this list,
Absurd names.
> which was and remains the main
> community dialogue about this self-organizing process.
Not in my opinion. In my opinion, no sane person in any position of
responsibility would feel safe giving anything whatsoever to this
list to decide. This list is the spiritual home of Jeff Williams.
> NSI had some
> recommendations, too, as did other organizations. None of those lists were
> considered.
Of course they were considered. They were rejected.
> So the disturbing part that continues to haunt ICANN like a great grey
> cloud is that the interim board was delivered to the Internet community in
> whole cloth. With only a handful of people participating in their
> selection, why are you surprised by the public recalcitrance to accept the
> authority of these 9 unelected and unaccountable board members over any
> policy-making decisions.
I *guarantee* you that there would be *far* greater public
recalcitrance to accept the authority of a board elected by this
list.
--
Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lonesome." -- Mark Twain
