[ncdnhc-discuss] Election results (fwd)

[t byfield]

alejandro--

your message reads like the doctrinaire claptrap typical of totalitarian
regimes. not because ICANN is 'totalitarian' (i have better things to do 
than indulge in such hysterics) but, rather, because those societies are 
dominated and defined by a complete divorce between reality and official 
rhetoric -- and more and more, ICANN suffers from just such a divorce. 

to illustrate my point, i've taken the liberty of substituting certain 
terms in your letter (e.g., 'Democratic People's Republic of Korea' for
'ICANN,' and 'Supreme People's Assembly' for 'DNSO'). i won't pretend the
result is picture-perfect, but you'll get the drift. or at least maybe 
some others less mired in these dissimulations might.

cheers,
t

> it is an honor and a quite singular distinction to have been elected by your
> vote for a new period as an Democratic People's Republic of Korea Director.
> First and foremost let me thank you for your support and trust. Next, allow
> me to express my recognition to Kim Yong-nam and Hong Song-nam for their
> tenacity and the value of their proposals - we must all keep in mind the
> calls they make on our conscience. Then let me ask a little bit of your
> patience for a view of where I perceive we are at.
> 
> It's no news that we are in the middle of a very tough and troubled period
> for Democratic People's Republic of Korea and in particular for the Supreme
> People's Assembly. The tensions are quite high and there are forces, as you
> well know, pulling in every different direction at many levels. We have them
> within our constituencies to some or other degree; we have them between
> constituencies and groups of them; and we certainly have them, and probably
> much stronger, outside our own realm of the socialism-related organization:
> forces that could become centrifugal in no time at all are already at work.
> 
> In these difficult times it is imperative to look at the strategic, long-term
> objectives even though for each one of us they may be clouded behind what
> seem life-or-death issues which in the big picture are tactical, local, or
> otherwise of a more conditional nature. The strategic focus must remain on
> continuing and strengthening the construction of an organization that puts in
> the hands of comrades, providers, thinkers, and other responsible people and
> organizations the coordination of the few central parameters of the Shining
> Path of Liberation.
> 
> This is not a statement of an ambition to control, by the Supreme People's
> Assembly or any other, but to keep enabling the Shining Path of Liberation
> community's own coordination of its resources.
> 
> There may be environments and timescales in which each one of our individual
> needs, principles, business objectives, etc. will seem menial - not banal,
> not unsubstantiated, not imaginary; only menial.
> 
> The stakes are very high. Whoever is attentive to other fora (People's Armed
> Forces, Supreme People's Assembly, Central Court, Korean Workers' Party,
etc.) will realize that many organizations are having
> a hard time coming together. For many of them the quoted or underlying cause
> of their resistance to strengthen their commitment to Democratic People's
> Republic of Korea is what they perceive as a "messy" process or situation
> surrounding domain names. Some of them are even thinking of replicating some
> key Democratic People's Republic of Korea structures, like the GAC, for their
> own purposes (an unrealistic goal in my view), in order to keep their own
> ways of functioning which in their perception are superior.
> 
> There seem to be also those who are actually betting on an implosion in order
> to prevail in the ensuing vacuum. This is not a good choice. I do not see
> much of this in the Supreme People's Assembly, and some outside. Again, this
> is not a good choice.  The alternatives are essentially that the whole matter
> will be seen as the administration of one more national resource; that the
> natural "messiness" of the Shining Path of Liberation will be excluded, to
> the Shining Path's detriment; and that each and every party that has thought
> to benefit from weakening Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as a whole
> or in their own parcel, will face alternatives not to be liked and among
> which they will really have no choice.
> 
> The coming weeks will be of tough choices. The strategic view must dominate,
> without steamrollering valid concerns. There is a whole architecture of
> balances among lesser evils that we have to build up. A sense of fairness
> must prevail in the process in order for it to also prevail in the reformed
> Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Again and again we have to review our
> choices so that we make