[IDNO-DISCUSS] Re: [discuss] DNSO Glitches and process: A report from the DNSO front.

Mark C. Langston (skritch@home.com)
Tue, 06 Jul 1999 15:51:16 -0700


On 6 July 1999, william@dso.net (William X. Walsh) wrote:

>On Tue, 06 Jul 1999 14:36:21 -0700, "Mark C. Langston"
><skritch@home.com> wrote:
>
>>I don't think so. And if it does matter to you, I'd ask that you=20
>>examine why that's so. Is it because you question the motives of those=20
>>whose actions benefit us, because they're not "in our camp"? If the
>>result is legitimate, and the one we've been working for, what does it
>>matter?
>
>Because they have a history of supposedly "supporting" or "helping"
>our cause, and even participating, and then pulling the rug out from
>under us at the last minute.
>
>See the IFWP process and what Mike Roberts did before the rest of us
>knew he had been tapped to lead ICANN. See what CORE did to the DNSO
>process, and the promises and committments that were made then, and
>how they screwed us in pushing a plan that went counter to everything
>the DNSO process had endorsed.
>

Hm. Good points. In that case, I would have to argue that the results
weren't legitimate. This is, of course, semantic nitpicking.
If there's a history of this sort of double-dealing with respect to various
efforts, then I will back down a bit on the above.

But I will then be forced to ask, where are the checks and balances here?

-- 
Mark C. Langston				Let your voice be heard:
mark@bitshift.org				     http://www.idno.org
Systems Admin					    http://www.icann.org
San Jose, CA					     http://www.dnso.org

- This message was sent via the IDNO-DISCUSS mailing list. To unsubscribe, send a message containing the line "unsubscribe idno-discuss" to majordomo@idno.org. For more information, see http://www.idno.org/