Re: [atlarge-discuss] Focused Mission Statement (was: point of order)

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

Joop and all stakeholders or other interested parties and members,

Joop Teernstra wrote:

> At 08:12 a.m. 13/10/2002 -0400, Ron Sherwood wrote:
>
> >     Your suggestion that we develop two mission statements and then vote for
> >the most popular, has the benefit of democracy but also suffers from the
> >biggest problem with democracy...  alienation of the losing side.
>
> Ron,
>
> If we abandon democracy, we undermine our raison d'etre.
> I am not interested to stay with a group with "leaders" that do not want to
> listen to their own members.

  Very much agreed here Joop!  Please practice what you preach! >;)

>
>
> The members must be polled, reliably and frequently, especially in the
> beginning.
> Polling officers should be elected.

  ALso agreed here as well...

>
>
> >     Isn't it possible for us to have two (or three) strings to our bow?
>
> It is possible, but you have to look at  the dispersion of the few energies
> that people with real lives have to give.

  We have plenty of members.  We need to motivate them to more
actively participate and take the lead on some issue related committees,
Working groups, and god forbid, Task Forces...

>
>
> My preference is for a focused mission, a battering ram that remains aimed
> at the weakest point of the "Global Internet Governance" fortress: ICANN's
> obligation to be a membership organization.

  This may be one goal as Ron suggested.  But it is only one.  We
also still must and should consider if as a body we wish to remain
independent also...

>
>
> Here we are, members who signed up to be counted as "ICANN AT Large"
> members  having been corruptly excluded and sidelined by ICANN.
> I feel that, without going back to our members and *ask* them,  it is
> nothing short of betraying them to now insist on diluting the focus and
> instead  using their names to take on "the whole bad world".

  This is a bit over the top here Joop...

>
>
> May I point again to the beginning that has been made by Cecily Wood,
> Sotiris, Walter Schmidt and Vittorio trying to find a more focused
> formulation. http://www.icannatlarge.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7
>
> Let me add my own draft:
>
> Preamble:
>
> This organization (ICANN At Large) has grown from the original commitment
> of ICANN and its Memorandum of Understanding with the Unites States
> Government to be a membership organization.
>
> Our initial membership has voted to have an internet presence named
> icannatlarge.org
> Both our name and our website domain may be changed when they would be no
> longer relevant.
>
> ********
> Our Mission is to create a legitimate and respectable  structure that
> allows for the democratic consultation and representation of
> Individual  Internet users in global internet governance bodies such as ICANN.
> ********

You mission statement seems to be motivated toward ICANN only or
ICANN predominantly.  I am not sure that this is where the members
wish to go or be lead to go.  But as I have known for many years
and stated on this and other forums, real leaders are really followers
of their constituents or in our case, members...

  Interesting

>
>
> Legitimate means developing process and respectable means undertaking a
> *big* PR job.
>
> Even such a focused mission is  in itself already a huge task for people
> who may not have more than 30-60 minutes a day to devote to such a task.
>
> If we succeed in this mission, ICANN, or whichever body that may replace it
> and still has provisions to be a membership org , cannot look past us.
>
> --Joop
>
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