Re: [icann-eu] At Large Study web site, members

[Mike Roberts <roberts@icann.org>]

Hans - this sort of foolishness is just going to confirm the total 
irrelevancy of your efforts in the minds of the people willing to 
give the U.S. liberals another chance to participate effectively in 
At Large.

You're talking about someone who had run a national political 
campaign and been elected Prime Minister of a European country; 
someone who has been going to the Balkans routinely now for several 
years at considerable risk to his own life to attempt to get people 
there to enter dialogue and make peace with each after 800 years of 
animosity; someone who was and is a leader in the Swedish 
communications industry which has a world class standing.

So this is the guy who is a phony front for Vint Cerf or Mike Roberts?

Get a life.

- Mike



At 15:06 -0500 3/1/01, Hans Klein wrote:
>The point about "independence" is a good one. 
>
>In the US, Carl Bildt would be described as a "political appointee."
>Political appointees act as surrogates for the people who appoint them.
>Carl Bildt is an impressive individual, but he cannot be described as
>"independent of ICANN."
>
>Hans
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>At 08:29 PM 3/1/01 +0100, Cees Rindmarsch wrote:
>>Mike Roberts wrote:
>>
>>>Let's now concentrate on participating in the study, which is being
>>>conducted independently of ICANN and its staff.
>>
>>Independently of ICANN?
>>
>>"The At Large Membership Study Committee Chair, Carl Bildt, and Vice Chairs,
>>Chuck Costello and Pindar Wong, nominated the following individuals as
>>Committee Members and submitted their names to the ICANN Board of Directors
>>for ratification: Pierre Dandjinou etc."
>>(http://www.atlargestudy.org/members.html)
>>
>>And Bildt and his vice chairs were appointed by the ICANN board
>>(http://www.icann.org/announcements/icann-pr26jan01.htm).
>>
>>Independently of ICANN? The word independent must have gotten a new meaning
>>recently. Perhaps it already started with the "independent" UDRP arbitration
>>and the way in which panelists are appointed or selected. If ICANN does not
>>changes the internet, it certainly changes the language.
>>
>>--
>>Cees Rindmarsch (cees@rindmarsch.com)
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