Re: [atlarge-discuss] Doubts about Draft Announce Document

[James Love <james.love@cptech.org>]

I think it is best to stick to minimalist statements regarding mission and 
purpose, and focus mainly on issues of how the elections are done, and the 
term of the new board, and let the next board work more on the mission 
issue, with the at-large membership.

Jamie



Alexander Svensson wrote:
> Hello Joanna, hello fellow At-Largers,
> 
> I have now read the text that I was asked to translate (and
> I'm almost through with translating), but I have more and 
> more doubts about where this endeavour is headed.
> 
> At the beginning, icannatlarge.com was a way for individual
> Internet users to sign up and tell ICANN: We are interested
> in (a) having a voice in ICANN, (b) self-organizing us and
> (c) contribute partly to funding this effort.
> 
> In Joanna's document, we have a worldwide organisation of
> all Internet users which wants to deal with all Internet-
> related issues and isn't even sure whether it wants to 
> participate in ICANN.
> 
> To me, this looks like an expansionist, gigantic organization
> with a blurry vision; I must say that I'm very skeptical about 
> this approach and I think it is not what people signed up 
> for in the beginning. Of course, the elected Steering Committee 
> will be free to agree on a Mission Statement which says what the 
> organization's aims are, and I thought Jamie and Joanna had
> just said that they want to leave that Mission Statement to
> the incoming Steering Committee. But frankly, these election 
> documents already contain a number of statements about the
> mission of this organization. 
> 
> Could we restrict the election documents to uncontroversial
> statements on the procedure of election? Otherwise, the
> members must have an opportunity to debate the statements
> of icannatlarge.com aims contained in the Announce
> Document.
> 
> Best regards,
> /// Alexander 
> 
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