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

["Roberto Gaetano" <roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com>]

Mike,

Mike Roberts wrote:
>
>At 14:38 +0100 3/4/01, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>>
>>Dear Mr. Roberts,
>>
>>I am not an "US liberal". In fact, I'm not American - I'm Italian and
>>I'm not a member of any political party. But I am a member of the ICC.
>>
>>I went to Los Angeles on my own, because I believe in the bottom-up
>>organization of the Internet and in the ideal that "the Internet is
>>for everyone" and especially for people, and not just for businesses -
>>even if I am a manager for an international dot-com company. And I
>>personally find it hurting that you reduce an international issue into
>>a matter of local (US) politics.
>
>I was objecting to an outrageous case of character assassination  by
>an American university professor who should know better.
>
>
>>I don't know if you believe in this ideal, or in any other ideal.
>>But I am sure that Mr. Bildt does have ideals. Nevertheless, if the
>>news about him not coming to Melbourne is true, I wonder how much
>>interest he in fact has in this particular issue. I also wonder if any
>>At Large member is a member of the At Large Study committee. As an At
>>Large member, I feel like a native american whose future is being
>>decided by a committee of nine WASP persons (just to put it the
>>American way, if you like it).
>
>We all have ethnic backgrounds of one kind or another.  I'm fourth
>generation of Irish-American.  What does that have to do with fitness
>to serve on the study committee?  Were you actually serious in
>suggesting that all nine of the committee members are Anglo-Saxon
>Protestant?


As much serious as he was in suggesting of himself being a native american 
;>).
I have seen sentences taken out of context and twisted to mean something 
else, but I confess that this is the first time that I see the subordinate 
part of a sentence quoted forgetting the principal.
;>)


>
>I suspect that several of the members of the study committee
>activated their memberships and voted in last year's election.  Since
>we promised everyone privacy in this matter,  it's none of your
>business or mine whether they did or not.
>
>The Chair and Vice Chairs of the study committee have already put in
>dozens of hours working to get the study organized and to prepare for
>the first meeting in Melbourne.  Pindar Wong, Vice Chair, who is from
>the Asia Pacific region, is eminently qualified to preside in
>Melbourne.  As others on this list have observed in the past, there
>has to be balance in access to the committee via several different
>means - face to face, email, web, forums, etc.  Since the site and
>email are now up, further suggestions on effective communication - to
>the committee and its Executive Director - are very much in order.
>


We can argue forever on these matters, but the real point remains: how much 
"user input" gets into the process, independently from the people that are 
already in the process wearing a hat.
I have almost unlimited faith in Carl Bildt, that I know from the press, and 
unlimited faith in Pindar Wong, that I know personally, but this does not 
prevent me from noting that the participation is not well balanced, and that 
the people that would favour a different model for ICANN's ALM are 
underrepresented. This would make me think that the positions of those 
people (who favour a different model) will not take the major part of the 
final report.

Anyway, in my short experience with Internet Policy I have found myself much 
more in disagreement with Prof. Froomkin than with Pindar Wong, but 
nevertheless I believe that it would have been a good idea to have in the 
team some of the people I disagree with.
The lack of capability of ICANN to deal with diversity so far is one of the 
reasons for my decreasing interest in all this, by the way.

Best regards
Roberto


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