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

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

Judith and all stakeholders or other interested parties,

  I have been clear all along.  Seems we have some native
English speakers that still have trouble with their own
native language, and thereby don't seem to yet be clear.  >:)

You and I are both clear and in agreement on this non-issue..

j.oppenheimer@att.net wrote:

> 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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