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

[NameCritic <chris1@telnor.net>]

I agree with this also. This group is now named ICANNATLARGE.ORG. It's focus
should narrowly focus on ICANN. I'll be glad to help where I can. But I will
also be looking to help form another group whose mission is not just on
ICANN. So I'll just have to find the extra time to be involved in more than
one group.

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic

Support democratic control of the Internet!
Go to http://www.icannatlarge.org and Join ICANN At Large!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Micheal Sherrill" <micheal@beethoven.com>
To: "Ron Sherwood" <sherwood@islands.vi>; "Joop Teernstra"
<terastra@terabytz.co.nz>
Cc: <espresso@e-scape.net>; <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Focused Mission Statement (was: point of
order)


> 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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