[atlarge-discuss] MISSION STATEMENTS SUMMARY

["Hans Klein" <hans.klein@pubpolicy.gatech.edu>]

Dear Panelists and Members,

To the best of my knowledge, below are all proposed mission statements.

I suggest that anyone with a novel mission statement post it in the next day.

Then I suggest that the Panel review all statements and try to craft a 
single statement that gains the support of everyone.

Hans


MISSION STATEMENTS:

[Note: I believe there are older mission statements by previous Panel 
members.  Can anyone forward those to the list?]


On 06:41 09/10/02, Hans Klein said:
"The mission of ICANNatlarge.org is to serve as an independent collective 
voice of Internet users in the processes of ICANN and other global policy 
bodies."


Jefsey Morfin, Wed, 09 Oct 2002:
"The mission of the ICANNatlarge organization is to serve as an independent 
collective voice of the @large Members who are motivated to concert and 
represent the interests of the Internet users in the processes of ICANN and 
local and netwide other governance bodies".


At 11:33 AM 10/13/2002 -0400, Walter Schmidt wrote:
"To MAINTAIN and advance the global interests of the Internet in an open
democratic process, by innovation, communication, and international
encouragement of the concept that the needs and rights of all people are
not to be abrogated by the technical, business, military or governmental
interests of those who are otherwise so vested."


At 09:30 AM 10/20/2002 -0400, James Love wrote:
"The mission of ICANNatlarge is to provide a mechanism for public 
representation in ICANN governance, that is open to anyone, transparent, 
balanced in terms of regional representation, and and which elects its 
leaders by popular votes."


At 09:31 PM 10/20/2002 -0400, Hans Klein wrote:
"The mission of ICANNatlarge is to provide a mechanism for public 
representation in ICANN governance, that is open to anyone, transparent, 
balanced in terms of regional representation, and which elects its leaders 
by popular votes.
	ICANNatlarge will work to maintain and advance the global interest of 
Internet users in an open democratic process by international encouragement 
of the concept that the needs and rights of all people are not to be 
neglected in favor of technical, business, defense, or governmental interests."


At 08:32 AM 10/21/2002 +0100, Richard Henderson wrote:
I'd prefer to replace "ICANN governance" with "Internet governance" as an
acknowledgement that there are a group of people in our organisation who do
not want our mission as narrow as this.


At 08:10 AM 10/21/2002 -0400,  ERIC DIERKERS wrote:
"We the participants of this group ( ? ) are dedicated to create a
voting mechanism to bring greater public awareness and involvement in
the important decisions regarding connectivity to the World Wide Web and
matters concerning the mechanisms that are commonly referred to as the
Internet.
	We fully intend to interface and assist in determining public will with
all groups involved in making policy with regard to interactive computer
use and addressing of communications through computers.
	We intend to operate with openness and fairness.  We intend to be open
to all and be truly representative of users throughout the world."


At 10:48 PM 10/22/2002 -0400, Hans Klein wrote:
As an initial approximation, there are two views:
1) "ICANNatlarge.org is focused on Internet governance via ICANN"
2) "ICANNatlarge.org is focused on Internet governance in general"
So a statement that says that "we are focused on Internet governance in 
general, with particular focus at the current time on ICANN," might win 
overall consensus.


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