[IDNO:234] Re: Accepting an interim seat on the Names

Dave Crocker (dcrocker@brandenburg.com)
Wed, 09 Jun 1999 18:24:41 -0700


At 06:00 PM 6/9/99 -0700, Karl Auerbach wrote:
>I have a direct stake in all of this and I have been apportioned zero vote
>by the ICANN board.

1. As you may have noted, there is a clear and strong line of argument
which disagrees with your assessment. I'll leave pursuing and supporting
that line to others; they are quite good at it.

2. The way a constituency usually gets recognized is by organizing and
demonstrating its cohesiveness and focus. That such a group is only just
forming is not the ICANN Board's fault.

>That's not a very complicated or subtle issue.

Indeed it is not.

>The interesting part is how ICANN's behavior has managed to make NSI
>look good by contrast.

Making hard decisions usually makes the decider look bad, particularly when
there is a bevy of critics eager to make the water boil with biting attacks.

NSI, on the other hand, has millions of dollars for spending, to develop
clever, subtle, indirect ways of making itself look good, and for keeping
the process unstable. They have been spending their money well.

d/

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