RE: [atlarge-discuss] Re: [Members] Discuss list gone?

["JFC Morfin @large" <jfc@atlarge.ws>]

On 07:37 01/08/03, Jeff Holt said:
> You tell 'em Richard!
> http://www.icannatlarge.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=3
>
> FYI... The Forum is open and may be used.  Try it.  This email list is
> getting obsolete and should be discontinued to make way for the new
> era....
Dear Jeff,
the purpose of all this is not contention. Richard and I have obviously 
positvely continued that talk privately.

I am afraid that fora are - as e-mail - a temporary phase into the 
development of an articulated commonly accepted e-community working habitus 
and tools. Many interesting propositions have been introduced in the last 
years in the @large community (including by Joanna Lane), completing ITU 
(30 years old), Intlnet (25 years old) and IETF (17 years old) experiences. 
All this is part of the brainware we start exploring (in which you 
obviously are one of the experimental masters).

The de facto closing of this list may seem a plus today. I do not think it 
is. This is not to oppose a decision, it is a "braingraber" analysis. We 
have another example today : what currently happens at the NCUC is for all 
of us a very sad day. Where @large are losing another opportunity. May be 
the last one as far as ICANN was concerned. When communities become gettho 
it is no good for outreach, and communities (like the micro civilizations 
they are) progress or die.

All this is pure mechanics.
jfc



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