Re: [atlarge-discuss] My Candidacy Information

["Micheal Sherrill" <micheal@beethoven.com>]

Hello Ron:

Much of what you say is uncomfortably true.  We have failed, mostly.  But, that does not mean we have to panic and give away the organization to those people that run up to us in the last minute and announce their eagerness to direct our cause.

I agree with you that we need new blood and we need to stop bickering.  But I cannot, in good conscience, vote for someone I do not know or for someone that has not contributed in the past.

Yes, Sotiris can be surly at times.  Hopefully, the travails of office will temper some of that.  And if not we can always vote him out.  That is the true test of Internet Democracy.  Unlike ICANN when we elect people it does not become a lifetime job of cronyism.

Regards,


Micheal Sherrill


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Ron Sherwood" <sherwood@islands.vi>
Date:  Sat, 24 May 2003 16:47:29 -0400

Dear Micheal:

I respect your motivation and I am sure that many others share your
viewpoint. However, the very people that you know and trust; the very people
who have worked so hard for so long in their attempt to get this
organization on it's feet... have failed. Could it not be that there are a
few people in the world who are capable of succeeding in this endeavor, but
whom you would discard because they were not a part of the group that
previously failed?

If those among us who have tried so hard for the past year or so, were so
damned good at the job that only we are fit to be elected... then please
tell me why we are not one whit closer to being a representative @large
organization than we were a year ago.

I suspect it is because we were so involved with our bickering and personal
disputes that we never got around to actually achieving anything (except,
perhaps, to make the list so unattractive that it has shrunk rather than
expanding to its enormous potential).

If the members that we elect to this third Panel are not able to work
together because we elect those who are incapable of behaving in a civilized
manner to one another... we will have again failed in our purpose.

Sincerely, Ron Sherwood




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