[ICANN-EU] nationality discussion

["Andreas Fügner" <Andreas.Fuegner@lizenz.com>]

Dear Participants:

The submissions about national or nationality issues to this forum
are contraire to the idea, the spirit and the intention of the internet.

May I remind, the internet is a worldwide medium to connect people,
exchange information, express ideas, keep in touch, etc.

Worldwide is the magic word here.

What sense does it make to re-establish national communities/entities?
For the first time we have a medium without borders and now we create some?

Andreas Fuegner

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Geza Giedke <ggiedke@fe-c705.uibk.ac.at>
An: icann-europe@fitug.de <icann-europe@fitug.de>
Cc: Vittorio Bertola <vb@vitaminic.net>
Datum: Freitag, 18. August 2000 17:30
Betreff: Re: [ICANN-EU] Horizontal organization


>Vittorio Bertola writes:
>> Since it does not seem feasible to me to have a mailing list with
>> 35'000 subscribers, I guess that the European community should be
>> broken down into local communities, where "local" can be conceived in
>> a variety of meaning: by country, by type (business, no-profit,
>> underground...), by job, by age... However, the most natural way to
>> proceed seems to me to be by nation, for one simple reason: the
>> language. Everyone feels more comfortable with his own mother tongue,
>> and not everyone speaks English.
>
>I support the intent of horizontal pan-european organization of
>netizens. But I think it should be *avoided* to break this down in
>local communities! Isn't this what we have right now?
>If it is really difficult to set up a mailing list for 10^4-10^5
>subscribers, then I'd suggest a newsgroup.
>
>I think we need a forum frequented by people from all countries.
>Concerning elections: the advantage that German speaking candidates
>have at the moment is that they are well known to many @Large members
>thanks to NGs and MLs. If more EU-wide fora existed, this sort of
>national advantage would be reduced.
>
>regards
> Geza
>
>