Re: [ICANN-EU] Re: European At Large Council

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>]

On 2000-08-31 04:42:28 +0200, Griffini Giorgio wrote:

> Yes but it should be manageable otherwise the director will spend
> most of his energies in trying to understand what is the concern
> rather than trying to find a solution for such concern. 

If your main concern is about ressources needed to follow
discussions, and mere monitoring of tendencies, there's no real need
for elections and the like - I'd rather expect that the structures
needed will naturally evolve.

> And if we talk about understanding if there is consensus thing
> may become even worse... It is like to have to cope with a whole
> stadium voting: If you get consensus it will be surely
> representative but how much it will takes to safely count raised
> hands ?

"Consensus" doesn't need to mean raising hands.  It's rather like
this: "Do we have consensus?  Whoever objects, do it now, and give a
rationale why."  This works quite nicely.

> As already told in another msg I think it is almost unpratical to
> act as there were no boundaries while they actually still exists.

The question is whehter and how these boundaries influence
ICANN-relevant topics.

> There are 'cultural boundaries' not 'technologic boundaries' and
> they should converge at their own pace by influencing themselves
> until they reach a stability point. (Ach... entropy again...:-)

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> Any other concept of 'representativeness' will be questioned as
> arbitrary because if you choose another one you will be
> 'instantly' not representative (by the new concept) for placing
> that choice.

Sorry, but you don't become a representative for the general public
by saying "I want to be a candidate" (which is easy), and getting a
handful supporters afterwards (which shouldn't be that difficult,
either - friends and family are sufficient).

The best way to attack the representativity argument is, in my
humble opinion, to make the process open for all, and try to record
the differing opinions. But I wrote that before, you remember?

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Thomas Roessler                         <roessler@does-not-exist.org>