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

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

What minimalist statements?  
Regards,
Joanna

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Love [mailto:james.love@cptech.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:53 AM
> To: Alexander Svensson
> Cc: atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de; Joanna Lane
> Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Doubts about Draft Announce Document
> 
> 
> 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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