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

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

At 13:47 14/10/00, you wrote:
>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. -