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Re: [dnso.discuss] Re: Flawed Drafts submitted to ICANN



Stef and all,

  NO or DISAGREE>  We have already submitted our suggested
amendments.

Einar Stefferud wrote:

> Look All Y'All --
>
> The bottom line is, do you AGREE or DISAGREE with the CONTENT of the
> PARIS DRAFT?
>
> If you AGREE, then please jsut say YES.
>
> If you DISAGREE, Please say NO, PLUS
>                  PLease say why and offer new text to fix the draft.
>
> All arguments at this point apobut the porcess for birthing the PARIS
> draft are pretty much MOOT, unles you are just trying to negate the
> progress that it represents.
>
> Frankly, I wnat to spend my limited time to work on fixing what is
> wrong with it, in a public discussion forum, than to rehash where it
> came from.
>
> Frankly, it came from melding a bunch of unlikely stuff, and rehashing
> it all yet again only makes us look back on that awful mess that the
> PARIS DRAFT somehow arose from.
>
> In my book, this shows that self organizing complexity arises more
> easily from CHAOS than from ORDER.  As you are noting, the
> circumstances surrounding the PARIS meeting were really chaotic, and
> the fact of being chaotic was no doubt a contributing factor in the
> birth of the PARIS DRAFT.
>
> So, lets just go forward from here...\Stef
>
> >From your message Sun, 07 Feb 1999 15:12:07 -0500:
> }
> }Esther Dyson a =E9crit:
> }
> }> Isn't the  DNSO itself a form of "forced arbitration" - or " at least >=
> } a committee to come up with some alternatives, some radical > alternativ=
> }es"?
> }
> }I would hope so. But there's a tendency afoot for people and groups to
> }equivocate their opinions and policies in order to seem to be arriving at=
> } a
> }"consensus". This may be necessary temporarily in order to include all
> }constituencies equitably in the DNSO's membership, but it won't have been
> }useful to institutionalize compromise, before it has been reached, in
> }articles or bylaws. These should be for mechanisms to resolve the
> }differences, not statements that they don't exist.
>
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