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Re: [atlarge-discuss] ALOC Draft - - "political parties"



Parties organize, and yes, once the parties are working, people do indeed vote, and ideally the drill is one person = one vote. Sorry for the slow reply.

Esther

At 01:48 PM 7/29/2002, James Love wrote:
Esther Dyson wrote:
Unfortunately, I am not in a position "to put Denise to work" on something. What she writes is a balance between the ICANN board and what she hears on the lists.... and as I said, when I floated this idea it got no traction.
As I just asked, ANYONE ELSE INTERESTED IN PARTIES?
I enjoy parties as much as the next person. But what are you talking about. People voting? Please explain what a party does if elections are banned?

Jamie


I would be delighted to see some buy-in and then indeed I'm sure Denise at least would pay attention. Getting the board interested is an even greater challenge, but yes, let's include it in the draft if there is some visible interest.
Esther

At 08:53 PM 7/28/2002, Joop Teernstra wrote:

At 05:14 p.m. 28/07/2002 -0400, Esther Dyson wrote:

good idea..... but I've tried it before and it seems to have no traction. ANyone else??


Esther,

I remember that you mentioned representation based on Parties in an interview some time ago, but that was all.
If you had actually put Denise to work on writing draft parliamentary rules under which such a system could work, you would see instant traction.

But it seems you yourself are only luke-warm to the idea, seeing it only as a solution for the "long term".

I see it as the quickest way to stop much of the internecine bickering and fighting for control that will otherwise dog At Large organizing efforts.

Fact is that different individuals have different priorities and points of view and will want to flock around different representatives.

Fact is that it personality conflicts between representatives drain a huge amount of energy out of a united effort, preventing constructive work on real issues.

Multi-party representation provides the only solution to those problems.


--Joop

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