Re: [atlarge-discuss] We are not alone -- Fwd. WSIS: Virtual PrepOns in cyberspace for the Information Society

[eric@hi-tek.com]

ICANN is at a precipice at which they will stand until there is an expedient alternative.
We have a mandate to provide a Global Electoral Body.
There is no real mandate as to what we must accomplish except to exist and that is good.
Some look at the many posts and think noise, I look at them as important products of hardworking people.
People with nothing really to gain but, to improve our Internet, WWW and IT.
ICANN can never contribute what this group does in reality.
We must look at the whole world as our venue, at all issues as our duty to consider. We are not ICANNcentric we are GLOBAL
Good luck to all in the elections, I only hope that those who can do the job, can be elected.

Sincerely,
Eric

Giampaolo Bonora wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 23:49:31 -0400, espresso@e-scape.net wrote:
>
> >This material is not about ICANN but it holds some interest, I think, for the potential of an "At Large" community that really works.
> >
> >
> ><< start of forwarded material >>
> > ...
>
> Hello Judyth,
>         thank you for this post, and for your others contributions to
> this list, really useful IMO.
>
> Someone in this list was concerned about an excessive attention to
> day-to-day little games inside ICANN.
> You now show us a perspective that could seem too remote on the opposite
> side, but we should definitely consider it.
>
> For what I know, the WSIS process (under the aegis of ITU) is scheduled
> as complex and slow, with a milestone at the end of next year and
> another round, probably more effective, in 2005.
> This agenda, I guess, is well considered also from US DoC, which I can
> imagine reluctant to give up with ICANN now, while the preferred choice
> could be the 'reform' - as Nancy Victory stressed in her letter to Lynn
> - or a ICANN's reduction in size and/or in scope.
>
> Hans Klein pointed us to a request from Verisign - CENTR, to limit
> ICANN. Having seen the involution of ICANN, now this is probably a good
> thing - but IMO this is not our main problem, which instead is the
> lacking of participation and representation in ICANN, huge or small.
> >From here - from an ineffective organisation's role and placement -
> comes the management's slowness and ineffectiveness.
>
> Whichever decision will come from DoC this is a permanent challenge for
> the Atlarge community. This presently applies mainly to ICANN, tomorrow
> could apply where the problems raised from ICANN's management will be.
> If icannatlarge fails suiving ICANN's failures (or his own), I am sure
> that many of us will continue to defend the same ideas in other places,
> hopefully in the online WSIS' PrepCom, among others.
> So, the newly elected panel should maintain this perspective, open a
> discussion with a precise timetable for the decisions that permit to
> weigh on (incorporation comes to mind, and after that, accreditation as
> NGO to participate in PrepCom). And, no matter it's no more 'Interim',
> as a group it should try to look beyond its one-year's mandate.
>
> Regards,
>         giampaolo
>
> ------------------------------------
> Giampaolo Bonora - bonora@nettuno.it
>
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