Re: [ICANN-EU] Jeanette and other candidates (was Re: Snapshots)

["Jeanette Hofmann" <jeanette@medea.wz-berlin.de>]

> > http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/nf/0,1518,89936,00.html and
> > http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/8579/1.html
> 
> Especially the last one is well written. And although I'm generally wary
> of Jeanette's  "down with the engineers" approach, which, though between
> the lines, is well visible in this interview, it contains a number of
> remarkable and agreebbale insights.
Christoph,
whatever you've discovered between the lines, this is not my 
approach. The point I want to make is that a technology's design  
implies political dimensions. So called religious wars among engineers 
are about the "right" concept of a given technology. The history of the 
Net's architecture is just one of many examples. One of the motives 
that drives my work is to make the varying options at stake 
understandable for non-technicians. Thus, I'd like to open those 
debates to people who are affected by their outcome. With regard to 
domain names, we call them users.
To be sure, to argue for a participation of non-technicans calls the 
engineers' power into question. However, I can't imagine that this 
would drive them away ;-) 

jeanette 

> She might, OTOH, occasionally stop confusing the sliding windows
> protocol
> with Van Jacobson's slow start algorithm. Although the latter uses
> mechanisms of the further, they are entirely different beasts.
> 
> Which brings us to a question I've not seen here before. How much do you
> folks actually understand of what you are talking about, technically ?
> 
> I know about Lutz, I have some Ideas about Andy and I'm pretty confident
> about Sabine given her background. The rest of the field is a mystery to
> me.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Christoph Weber-Fahr