Re: [ICANN-EU] thanx for the fish & lets start the work

[Gerhard Wendebourg <gwhh@gmx.de>]

Andy Mueller-Maguhn wrote:
>Indeed, my idea is to create a wide open base for discussion on
>icann issues; that is the model of news and debate (which is
>adapted from my experience in even more chaotic entities).

won't it be a good idea - with the intention, to have a real public and
transparent discussion on the ICANN - to have an extended technical
(communication-)base for this ?

I for myself have no problem using mailing-lists, but very many people out
there, that still today not know about the ICANN-selection, though they
would be interested in getting democracy on the net, will not easy become
familiar with it.
I think about Web-Frontends for the mailing-lists, the way systems like
http://egroups.com do (I also know of the "discus"-forum, also combining
the mailing-list feature with a Web-Forum and several others), that are
usable both: from the Web and with email, and also (visual threaded)
structuring topics.
Also the feature of uploading files (for documentation, drafts,
organigramms and so on), to have a timetable of upcoming events and also a
news-archiv.

At this time its all patchworked and not easy for a not-insider, to get an
overview on the ICANN-related topics.
With this we invite the offline-media to put their interpretation allover,
first time maybe not unfriendly, but when the public discussion is
beginning and treating commercial business, the intention of democracy
shoudn't rely on them. And so this intention and (our) activitys will - in
the public - become, what the press will write about.

So we should give people - and also people, that are not since decades
living with the net - a real chance understanding whats going up with
ICANN, and give them an easy access to the real and authentic informations
and discussions.

Of course I see, it might be a very big step from the now very small base
of not only 0,1 percent of all net-users, that participated in the
ICANN-selection to an really representative and democratic legitimated
forum, and several of you involved now will be afraid of this step and its
consequence.
But I think, you / we have to face this step, and so now have the big
chance, to get this development structured. -