[ICANN-EU] Re: [icann-candidates] Hello, to anyone who don't knows me!

["Constantine S. Chassapis" <cschassapis@acm.org>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: coach <roland.portig@sonnet.de>
To: Constantine S. Chassapis <cschassapis@acm.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [icann-candidates] Hello, to anyone who don't knows me!


> Dear Constantine,
> enclosed I sent you an email I wrote to Michel Baujard on 
> this issue.
> Greetings.
> Roland
> ...................Michel,
> there is something you must again think about: I said keep 
> politics out but
> I did not say: be unpolitical. To keep politics out means that 
> people like
> Oberhaensli must definitively kept out of ICANN, because 

oops! what we are trying to have is democracy in the 
Internet epoch. We exclude no-one! If Mr Oberhaensli 
convinces the people, the educated, informed, 
cultivated,active, responsible people, then he is OK!

> they want to slip
> the common thinking of politics to the web, and that means, 
> that we only
> will get a dull mirror of the world as it is now instead of a 
> fair
> participation and globalisation. To keep politics out means 
> that the persons
> standing for a ancient european party or acnient politic or 
> ancient unions,
> will only produce an ancient web, because they were elected 
> in their
> position by the members of their party or paid by their 
> party. For that they
> have to stand for ancient thinking and ancient standings. We 
> must keep
> politics out, to be able to work on a new,  web equivalent 
> politic, of which
> noone can tell how it will be, because the democratic issues 
> must first come
> to dicussions. If we will follow e.g. Oberhaensli, we stand 
> in front of  a
> fixed opinion, and this will be destructive for the future. 
> And there is
> another thing: If we open our mouth too much concerning 
> new ICANN politics:
> do you really believe that the FBI or the CIA, watching our 
> dicussion, will
> allow to drive ICANN to a organisation totally in opposite 
> to the US
> politics? Please remember: keep politics out, not to be 
> unpolitical, that is what I meant.

OK, I see your point, but be careful. You can keep
"politics" as you say in a distance only by educating
people and by explaining why. That was my point. 

So I believe we reached a "rough consensus".

Sincerely,
Constantin Chassapis