[lir-wg] ICANN Reform

At 09:45 PM 10/8/2002, Hans Petter Holen wrote:
>My diagnosis is that there is to little participation from the community.
>
>This is not only the RIPE NCCs fault.
>This could be a community failiure, process failiure, or even failiure of the chair of this wg or something else.

Hans Petter,

this diagnosis is a difficult one.
 
I have been worrying about this 'problem' ever since RIPE meetings 
have grown beyond 50 attenders. And I have been very concerned, to
the point of being distressed, about the lack of a vivid discussion
many times. Rob is my witness. After a while he developed quite some
routine to calm me down on these occasions. ;-)

I am now convinced that one cannot do more than provide an open forum 
and bring the important issues to the table together with proposals 
how to deal wit them. If there is no big discussion, implement things 
as proposed and do not waste too much energy worrying whether 
there was enough discussion. Take the lack of discussion as 
a vote of confidence.

I understand that anyone who is committed to open discussion, such
as yourself, will sometimes have the feeling that there is too 
much confidence expressed by lack of discussion. That is true.
But one cannot do more than provide the forum and offer every
opportunity for discussion. If the community has too much confidence
there is little one can do about it. Either it is justified or it is
not, but worrying about it is wasting energy.

Daniel