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Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership
At 12:26 AM 10/20/2002 -0400, DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:
Dear James,
The points you raise have merit, but I was not looking for a loyalty oath...
rather, a declaration of intent to accompany the sign-up mechanism, such as:
By registering to become a member of this organization, I avow that I am
committed to the White Paper's vision of At-Large representation within
ICANN.
But, leaving aside questions of legal enforceability, isn't that precisely
a loyalty oath?
What if, hypothetically speaking, my vision of a meaningful (and real) at
large differs significantly from the White Paper? Assuming I won't avow
falsely, should I be excluded? ("I" here is generic, for
convenience.) What if I don't know what the White Paper's vision is, are
we to be so elitist that we exclude only those who know or who are willing
to do the homework, assuming that they won't avow untruthfully? What about
folks who genuinely are undecided about what should be done, just have a
general sense that something should be, and/or just want to acquire more
knowledge, and are willing to pay the dues (if we have them) to get that
knowledge here? If we are to achieve critical mass, we need the part-time
student cafeteria workers, not just the fully committed to a narrow vision,
don't we?
Again, I am being a bit more confrontational and rhetorical than is my
norm, but I'm trying to illustrate that, in my view, there is no suitable
vow, for many reasons.
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This man, who seems to have led a life of unrelieved insignificance,
must have been astonished to find himself suddenly putting the
Government of the United States in such fear that it was afraid to
tell him why it was afraid of him.
Shaughnessy v. Mezei, 345 U.S. 206 (1953) (Jackson, J., dissenting)
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