[ncdnhc-discuss] Board retreats and fully transparent process for ICANN

[Dave Crocker]

At 09:16 PM 5/27/2002 -0400, KathrynKL at aol.com wrote:
>Courts, trials,

And they are permitted closed meetings.


>Congress,

And they are permitted closed meetings.


>  City halls, Shareholder meetings, the Federal Communications Commission, 
> the North American Numbering Council and that's just the short list off 
> the top of my head.

and they are permitted closed meetings.


You folks are complaining that there are ANY closed ICANN board meetings.

Hence it is not very useful to cite organizations that have some open and 
some closed meetings... just like ICANN!

So again:  where are the examples of similar very large scale 
administration and operations activities.

Really, is it so difficult to focus on the reality of ICANN?


>Open and Transparent was what we requested and what we received in the 
>White Paper and the By-laws of ICANN.

Indeed.  And were anyone to pay attention to actual history, ICANN is 
vastly more open and transparent than any equivalent activity in history.

So rather than trying to constantly demand an ideal of perfection that is 
entirely unrelated to practical experience, how about participating with a 
tone of reason and balance?

This is not a theoretical exercise in ideals, folks.

It is a continuing operation for an essential global infrastructure service.

d/

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