[lir-wg] ICANN Reform

agreed

siegfried

On 23 Oct 2002 at 9:04, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:

> 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
> 
>