Re: [ICANN-EU] Horizontal organization

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@vitaminic.net>]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:04:34 +0200, you wrote:

>What seems to be missing at the moment is the supra-national forum;

I agree. If this makes you comfortable, we should create a mailing list open
for reading and writing to all At Large members. Then we'll see if it works.

However, I still feel the need for a low traffic support group for the
regional At Large Director. Think of this: you are the Director and you need
to decide whether to support, let's say, the creation of the .eu domain, and
how. It is a very important decision and you want to taste the feelings of
the community. If the only instrument you have is a forum with 40'000
subscribers, what do you do? You post your message, and since this is a hot
subject, you get 1000 different answers the first day, possibly generating
threads, flames, infinite discussions on silly details and so on (you know,
you get at least one troll every 50 posts...). Do you read them all? And how
do you count or group them? How can anyone determine what is the consensus
in such an environment and if the Director is following it or not?

On the other hand, if you have a restricted group of 20-25 trusted persons,
which in turn are trusted by the community, it's easier that the bottom-up
system works, and that even complex matters can be discussed profitably.

So I'd like to shift the discussion: agreed that a general mailing list for
all At Large members is good and worth trying, should a smaller support
group (in fact, quite similar to what this list is now) be constituted? I'd
like to get comments on this point.
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Vitaminic [The Music Evolution] - Vice President for Technology