Re: [ALSC-Forum] Monday outreach meeting

[Jeff Williams]

Karl and all stakeholders or interested parties,

  I agree with your assessment and suggestion here Karl.  We
have seem precious few comments or engagements from
this committee regarding this forum or even on this forum.
As a result the trust level is perilously low for any
conclusions that might be decided or determined
by this committee.

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Esther Dyson wrote:
>
> > I don't quite get the last question, but I certainly get the overall
> > dissatisfaction.  The committee has the same problem (feature?) ICANN has:
> > It can't speak for itself until it has come to consensus
>
> This is what confuses me:  Human language and discourse are far from
> perfect; withut any fault of the either the listener or speaker, ideas are
> conveyed imperfectly.
>
> Thus, it is a natural part of human dialog for there to be an exchange of
> questions and answers as the parties try to discover ambiguities, to
> clarify definitions, and to resolve misunderstandings.
>
> When one observes a situation in which one party speaks and the other
> party silently listens there is a tendency to believe that the listener is
> not actually hearing, much less comprehending and understanding, what is
> being said.
>
> It is my opinion that people would be more secure in their positive
> feelings about the ALSC if the committee members were to engage in
> occassional forays into the e-mail forum in order to ask questions, ask
> for clarifications, or even to engage in some constructive dialog to
> focus or clarify a promising idea.
>
>                 --karl--

Regards,

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