Re: [ga] Karl's latest

[James Love <james.love@cptech.org>]

    Joe, is it now cool to be "anti-democratic" at ICANN?  And if so, does 
it make sense to have so much power centralized in a single organization?

   Jamie

Joe Sims wrote:
> Karl is part of the old ICANN -- an organization that was as much a 
> magnet for every person with grandiose ideas about global democracy as 
> it was a serious working body.  That old ICANN is gone -- and is being 
> replaced with an organization that still adheres to the core values of 
> openness and transparency, of broad public input and participation, and 
> of making policy by consensus whenever possible, but does so with the 
> knowledge that it still has to all work.  For people like Karl, the new 
> ICANN may not have quite the magnetic attraction of the old, but that is 
> not a bad thing.  It should help get the decisions that must be made 
> done in a timely and effective way.  And that will be a good thing.



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