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

[Christoph <cweber@dialup.nacamar.de>]

Hello,

Jeanette Hofmann wrote:
> 
> > > http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/8579/1.html
> >
> > [This] 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 agreeable insights.

> whatever you've discovered between the lines, this is not my
> approach. 

With all due respect, I reserve my doubts on this.

In your debate with Lutz in the Heise forums you said:

"the time when the net was mostly controlled by the 
technicians are finally over" (1)

and

"I think it were helpful if engineers would restrain their 
claim for exclusive control over technology's shape somehwat" (2)

Let me offer my very personal perception of this:

Please don't claim objectivity here - you aren't. Nobody is. 

If you'd be sorry about the vanishing influence of engineers on 
technology, you'd say so. You didn't. You aren't.

And please save me the usual diatribe about technician's arrogance
and so on. Frankly, I don't care. We all live in a world where 
engineers don't count that much. The internet was, to some degree, 
the great exception. It was, and still to a large degree is,
fundamentally _ours_. This is one of the resaons it became such 
a success. It was designed without lawyers, without beancounters, 
without marketdroids. And it worked, worked tremendously well.

_Maybe_ that cannot stay this way. _Maybe_ we'll all succumb to the
rule of lawyers again. _Maybe_ next generation technology is going to 
be dictated by hoardes of board members carrying business degrees
and marketing titles. Mabye the Stefs of the world are going to
rule it again, sooner or later. Maybe change is irresitible. 

Maybe. 

But I don't have to like that. 

Yet.

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr



(1) "Die Zeiten, in denen das Netz überwiegend durch Techniker regiert
wurde, sind endgültig vorbei."
http://www.heise.de/ct/forum/go.shtml?read=1&msg=68&g=959243064_01
(2) "Ich fände es hilfreich, wenn Ingenieure ihren Exklusivitätsanspruch 
auf die Gestaltung von Technik etwas zurücknehmen [...] würden"