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

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Vittorio and all stakeholders or other interested parties,

Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> 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.

  I am afraid that I cannot read what you are responding to
here VIttorio as you seem to wish to improperly IMHO
characterize it.  NO ONE is, including the above statement
is making any even seemingly such a claim.

> 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.

  Again Vittorio, NO ONE is or has said any such a thing!
Your slurring the above statement to which you are responding to
here is a gross mischaracterization at best.

>
>
> 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.

  Very true here.

> 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.

  It is not exactly what democracy is about, but it is simply
ONE part of what Democracy is about.  However the speed
in which decisions are needed or made regarding the internet
must be made as close to Internet speed as possible for many
obvious reasons...  None the less some deliberation is
both good and wise as not to make TOO hasty of a decision
that may be damaging to stability or directly to stakeholders/users.

> 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).

  Again no one is suggesting such a thing as you are stating here
Vittorio.  So please cease the slurring that is both unproductive,
and inaccurate...

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