Esther and all,
Esther Dyson wrote:
> Gordon,
>
> One does not have to be 100 percent in agreement with everything in order to
> stay involved in something. I think I can do more for the little guy (and
> the Net in general) from inside ICANN than from outside. If that changed, I
> would resign. (Yes, I have in another case resigned from a board where I
> disagreed fundamentally with a decision it made.) I will not resign in a
> snit every time I do not get my way. I make trade-offs, as we all (most of
> us) do.
When a peach is rotten it rots from the inside out, not the outside in.
The same is usually true with corporations and organizations. Most problems
START at the top or at the "CORE" (No pun intended). This is what
most of us, as well a Gordon are seeing in respect to ICANN. If the
PROCESS is bad, than the fruit will rot, and it will do so, like the
peach, from the inside out. If you have a rotting Peach in the basket,
it will soon spoil the other peaches in that basket. Than you have to throw
the whole basket out. If you remove the rotten peach early enough you
can save the basket. For ICANN it may be that saving the basket
is past....
>
>
> Esther Dyson
>
> >> From: Gordon Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 8:26 AM
> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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> >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Subject: "I represent the little guy" -- Esther Dyson as hypocrite
> >>
> >>
> >> Clausing quotes Esther Dyson as saying regarding her service on
> >> ICANN "i do
> >> not represent corporate interests; I represent the little guy."
> >>
> >> <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/06/biztech/articles/07ican
> >> .html>http://w
> >> ww.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/06/biztech/articles/07ican.html
> >>
> >> Esther's contempt for the internet is apparently so great that she thinks
> >> she can say one thing to the press and have it uncritically
> >> accepted by the
> >> business community to which she is selling out the interests of
> >> individuals
> >> and small business and non profit orgs.
> >>
> >> She apparently believes that the little guy who reads the net on ICANN
> >> won't notice the contrast between her actions and her words. And that if
> >> business leaders read it and see her hypocracy they will continue to stay
> >> in bed with her anyway. because this is about money, after all,
> >> and to hell
> >> with personal intergrity. she needs to take a ticket on the cluetrain.
> >>
> >> Esther could solve the whole problem she has craeted very easily.
> >>
> >> I call on her to tell the rest of the Board: I am not a hypocrite. i
> >> really do believe in the little guy. i was speaking sincerely in my book.
> >> Your attitudes have been forcing me to go against my real beliefs. ICANN
> >> must be open with open board meetings and open processes. I really do
> >> believe this and therefore to demonstrate my fundamental incompatibility
> >> with your attitudes, I resign effective immediately.
> >>
> >> ICANN would then reach a truly defining moment.
> >>
> >> You can 't have your cake and eat it too Esther - time to choose. The
> >> little guy and your own personal integrity or ICANN and big corporate
> >> America.
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