RE: [ALSC-Forum] Re: Bottom up process and group dynamics

[Bruce Young]

William wrote:

 

>Also, a multiplicity of little groups can be ignored at will, just as individuals are ignored at will.  
>A single group that can show a substantial, globally-based membership, on the other hand, is
>pretty hard to ignore.

Only if they aren't feeding *their* collective concensus into a single At Large "clearing house," if you will, that speaks with one voice to ICANN et al.

 

>Things are going according to schedule.

 

Indeed.  We need to stay the course.

 

>Where it goes, issue by issue -- and on each of which lots of us may have different views that one

>would hope to be Discussed  and Debated vigorously -- does not matter so much as the fact that

>it goes -- and it goes not only in fact, but also by way of an unambiguous expression and

>demonstration of that consensus.

 

Exactly.  If we keep the process open and invite everyone to participate, no one can accuse us of furthering anyones agaenda other than the concensus of our membership.

Bruce Young
Portland, Oregon
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