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

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

What we are doing here is even worse.
I was born in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA but work mostly in Vietnam and 
elsewhere in the Asia Pacific so Alex labels me NA.
No, this geographic concept is an ICANN relic monster!
Eric

> Are you misstating my message intentionally?
> 
> My point to begin with was that where they come from, 
> America or elsewhere, doesn't matter.  I'll repeat it - 
> WHERE THEY COME FROM DOESN'T MATTER.  That the people I 
> mentioned - Mueller, Froomkin, Byfield etc. - happen to 
> be American, is incidental as far as I'm concerned.
> 
> What matters is what they stand for and their proven 
> ability to navigate the terrain.
> 
> Anerican or not American has nothing to do with it.  Are 
> we clear now?
> 
> J
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>> 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).
>> -- 
>> vb.               [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a]
>> bertola.eu.org]<------ ----------------------> http://bertola.eu.org/
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