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Re: [atlarge-discuss] First Things First Re: [atlarge-discuss] Vittorio Bertola's candidation statement

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:15:55 +0000, you wrote:

>I do wonder if some peoples' interest in "geographic 
>diversity" in this forum at this point and time, is a 
>way of sabotaging this board, ie creating a potentially 
>less effective board in the name of political 
>correctness.  

Well, I refuse to believe that intelligence, honesty or skills are
concentrated in any single country of the world. You seem to think
that the US candidates in this election are as a whole more
intelligent, more honest and more skillful than the non-US ones - and
I really, with all due respect for everyone, do not agree.

If what you mean instead is that having non-US people in the panel
could raise the importance of issues such as internationalization or
translation in other languages, and lower other ones that are more
important to an American point of view... well, you cannot build an
organization that wants to represent the global Internet community,
and then run it only from an American point of view. You seem to
complain about the fact that a panel more geographically diverse could
have more different opinions in it and thus require more time to take
actions - but that's exactly what democracy is about. Democracy is by
nature slower than dictatorship, but you cannot fight ICANN's lack of
democracy and representativeness by opposing another lack of democracy
and representativeness, even if it was more effective in the short
term (and I don't think so).
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vb.               [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<------
----------------------> http://bertola.eu.org/ <--------------------------

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