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[atlarge-discuss] Re: You have been nominated for the ICANNATLARGE.COM panel
- To: "icannatlarge.com election" <alexander@svensson.de>
- Subject: [atlarge-discuss] Re: You have been nominated for the ICANNATLARGE.COM panel
- From: t byfield <tbyfield@panix.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 01:14:42 -0400
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i accept this nomination.
those who've followed my writings on ICANN must surely know that i'm
bitterly cynical about the organization -- about the sophistries of
its staff, about its expansion of its mandate in macro and micro dir-
ections, about its institutionalization of capture under the guise
of 'industry self-regulation,' about its combination of ambition and
incompetence, and about its systematic marginalization of the public
input without which it never would have been granted authority. thus,
it's particularly hilarious in a sort of 21st-century version of the
kafkaesque to be nominated for a position in an organization that
(a) either doesn't exist or masquerades as an organization that
no longer exists
(b) which in turn formed the membership of a corporation that,
as staff and counsel never tire of telling us, has no mem-
bers beyond the convenience of using that term to denote
non-members
(c) who in turn voted in a 'selection' process as opposed to an
'election' process -- at election.com.
the fact that i can summarize the situation so efficiently is a test-
ament to how droll the whole subject has become.
keep up the good work.
cheers,
t
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