[ga] Byfield comments

["Joe Sims" <jsims@JonesDay.com>]

tbyfield@panix.com wrote:
                                                                                          
 really, if i may say so, your message is a bit bratty. basically,                        
 you're saying that ICANN will do whatever it wants unless someone                        
 puts an alternative program in front of their collective face. we                        
 know how that works, though: if we did what you insist on, staff                         
 would (a) ignore it, (b) kibbitz it to death, (c) mangle it into                         
 something entirely different and call it 'consensus,' (d) accept                         
 it, go off on a frolic if its own, and then subject all challenges                       
 to absurdly litigious readings, and/or (e) some or (*amazingly*)                         
 all of the above on an ad hoc basis.                                                     
                                                                                          
 alternatively, if ICANN would like to hire me to edit their new                          
 mission statement, i'm all ears. now there's a proposition. :)                           
                                                                                          
                                                                                          
                                                                                          


How convenient it must be to be able to sit on the sidelines and carp at
the people trying to do the work, and then refuse to offer alternatives
because they might not be accepted.  It's the ICANN version of "its my
ball, so we will either do it my way  or I'll take my ball and go home."
And yet you still seem to sincerely wonder why you have little influence?
Self-delusion is a powerful force.


Joe Sims


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