Re: [ALSC-Forum] At-Large Organizing Committee

[Jeff Williams]

Karl and all stakeholders of interested parties,

  Your right here Karl.  Not only that, but this seems yet another
waste of time, effort and a habitual Rat Hole chasing exercise
that of course some of us have been suckered into before.
It won't fly yet another time...

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> On Wed, 8 May 2002, Denise Michel ALSC wrote:
>
> > Here are the details on the proposed "At-Large Organizing Committee."
>
> This sounds like nothing so much as the "company unions" that were created
> by company management during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
>
> These were generally toothless creations foisted by company management
> upon the workers as a means of distracting the workers from joining real,
> independent unions that might discomfort company management.
>
> As a general rule, these company unions delivered exactly what they were
> designed to deliver to their members - nothing.
>
> I predict that this "At-Large Organizing Committee" will deliver exactly
> what it is designed to deliver to its members - nothing.
>
> It will, of course, deliver to ICANN exactly what it is designed to
> deliver there: a storyline that can be believed by those who lack the time
> or inclination to discover that ICANN's committement to public
> participation is perhaps not even as strong as the tobacco industry's
> committment to public health.
>
> Those who believe in the tooth fairy, the easter bunny, and ICANN's rather
> disingenuous committment to public participation can play in that
> powerless, meaningless place with whatever bright but harmless toys
> management may chose to make available.
>
> I suggest that the those who wish to achieve meaningful participation in
> ICANN and internet governance instead concentrate on doing things that
> actually might accomplish something towards regaining real public
> participation in ICANN - and that means elections of at least half of the
> board seats.
>
>                 --karl--

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