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

[eric@hi-tek.com]

We have some problems with Joops stuff here.

1.  A mission statement is a preamble.  Stating a slanted history is redundant
which is good in computers but poor in writing.
2.  Mention of the USG is negative at best and dissuasive to membership at worst.
3.  A mission statement is not a controlling document and needs to be vague and
glorious and not contemptuous and pious.

OTOH I like what he says and we should work it in, but democracy requires
diplomacy.
Other than that I have no opinion on the matter ;-}

You go Joop and Michael,
e

Micheal Sherrill wrote:

> Joop makes sense.  I support this.  This is one
> of the fundamental reasons for creating this
> organization.  We have one focus for the time being.
> Supplant ICANN.  Do not ponder a five year plan
> until we accomplish the task at hand.  We can
> change our "mission statement" later when it
> no longer fits our desires.
>
> Regards,
>
> Micheal Sherrill
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>
> Date:  Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:54:42 +1300
>
> 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.
>
> The members must be polled, reliably and frequently, especially in the
> beginning.
> Polling officers should be elected.
>
> >     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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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".
>
> 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.
> ********
>
> 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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