At 9/10/01 09:52 PM, Joanna Lane wrote:
>Hello Einar,
>The funny thing about this medium is that while I have no idea who you are,
>you feel entitled to ask me all kinds of questions without introducing
>yourself. If this were the phone, I doubt I'd take your call...;-)
Hi Joanna,
You can read more about Stef and some
of the rest of us at:
http://www.open-rsc.org/about/who/
> > At 17:45 -0400 09/09/01, Joanna Lane wrote:
> >> Just a note to introduce myself to this list. For those that don't me,
> >> please visit http://www.internetstakeholders.com, with particular
> reference
> >> to the ICANN Board Candidate Statement I made yesterday at Montevideo.
A very good intro, especially from someone
who has been involved with ICANN for only a
little over a year. However, I would like
to point out a couple of fallacies in your
position, at least from my experience.
First, that your bid for an ICANN board position
would have any impact on the current policies of
ICANN. Given the impact of the current At-Large
Board members, your impact is likely to be zero.
This is not only because the current board can
outvote the ALBMs, but because ICANN is now run
by an executive committee of the board, and most
of the decisions are made by the staff anyway.
And when you say ...
"I call upon the mainstream media to investigate and substantiate
allegations of deceptive practices and corruption that flow forth in
abundance from those monitoring proceedings from within the ICANN
organization on a daily basis. If what I hear is true, this story is bigger
than Watergate..."
... you imply that the media hasn't covered ICANN
because they are ignorant about what has been
going on.
Truth of the matter is, they aren't ignorant,
they are simply suppressing the story. I know
this first hand, as I have spent hours educating
reporters, only to have them transferred, fired,
or their stories rejected or changed by their
editors.
As unbelievable as these allegations are, they
are true ... not only for ICANN, but for many
other institutions like the WTO. Just like we
have been marginalized and ignored by the powers
behind ICANN, others have been marginalized and
ignored by the powers behind the WTO.
As an example, I have just completed an interview
with Dr. Bill Ellis, a long time activist (he's 80
years old) who once worked for the UN and the World
Bank. You can hear it online at:
http://www.aligningwithpurpose.com/images/BillEllis.ra
He describes how they have been meeting in parallel
with the G7 meetings for 20 years, and how the media's
refusal to cover their positions directly lead to the
riots in Seattle, Quebec and Genoa. He also echo's
many of Stef's points about chaos theory, edge control
and systemic change.
Hope this helps, and please let me know if you
have any questions.
Jay.
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