Re: [atlarge-discuss] Supporting Organization

["Ron Sherwood" <sherwood@islands.vi>]

Good morning, Danny:

    I snipped the following from your message:

"Do you really care that the regulator of your phone
system wasn't elected if the phones work well and remain reliable?  Of
course
you don't."

    In the context that you used it, this is a powerful argument.  But I
must tell you, from experience, that when the phones don't work well and
remain reliable, and when the regulator is a political appointee bought and
paid for by the phone monopoly, I do care that there is no election process
available to correct this serious abuse of the user.

    I suspect that the great majority of Internet users and potential users
will find themselves in the same position as the above noted phone users.
Surely the democratic representation of that group is our "raison d'etre"

Ron Sherwood

----- Original Message -----
From: <DannyYounger@cs.com>
To: <eric@hi-tek.com>
Cc: <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:23 AM
Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Supporting Organization


> Eric,
>
> I, for one, am satisfied with the work performed by the FCC.  They
regulate
> the telecommunications industry in the U.S., and guess what?  Not one
single
> Commission member is elected, and somehow the industry is under control
and
> users are generally happy with the quality of service they receive.
Global
> worldwide elections is not a prerequisite to getting the job done.   There
> are plenty of other viable models, and declaring yourself to be "a
worldwide
> election body" defines you merely as a group unprepared to be rational
about
> reasonable alternatives.  Do you really care that the regulator of your
phone
> system wasn't elected if the phones work well and remain reliable?  Of
course
> you don't.
>
> The entire point of having an open list is to encourage debate and to
explore
> other reasonable options.  There are lots of other user groups out there
> Eric... you should consider banding together with them rather than
attempting
> to take on ICANN alone... you'll make more progress if you do.  By all
means,
> assume a leadership role, but don't assume that you can shunt aside all
these
> others and still call yourself the representatives of the worldwide
At-large,
> it won't fly.
>
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