>Monday, July 19, 1999, 7:25:21 PM, Patrick Greenwell
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Bill Lovell wrote:
>>> Wow! Sounds like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there consensus here?
>>> HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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>> All kidding aside, Tony raises an extremely valid point: Where is all this
>> "consensus" that ICANN claims?
>
I find it disturbing that these ten globally dispersed board members have
voted UNANIMOUSLY on every issue save one. Most people cannot even agree
on what to have for lunch, so how can they come to agreement as if of one
mind?
Also disturbing is this comment from Esther Dyson's letter to Becky Burr:
This Board personifies effective
consensus decision-making, and many of its members feel that losing the
ability to discuss matters in decisional meetings in private will adversely
affect the candor of those discussions, and potentially the ability to come
to working consensus quickly, especially on some of the very complicated
issues that remain for this Board to deal with.
In other words, ICANN can easily discern the "consensus" of the Internet
community of some 150 million people (or even the circa 2,500 that have
been engaged in these discussions), but it will not be able to identify
consensus of only ten board members if its deliberations are made in
public. Methinks the board members are simply unwilling to let us know how
little they understand these complex matters.
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