Making Your Voice Heard

>> I am not sure that Becky Burr and Ira Magaziner and the domain-policy list
>> and the tld-wg list care about a 6 month old posting to 6 Israeli specific
>> Usenet groups about an ISOC-IL conference, which has absolutely nothing to
>> do with anything.

TLD-WG, DOMAIN-POLICY, RIPE CENTR ... IPv8, eDNS, AlterNIC ... and then Jim
Flemming! Being into Becky Burr's and Ira Magaziner's skin isn't so easy.
Their feeling must be as awful as it would be if someone took them to the
jungle and kicked them out of the jeep ... leaving them to the mercy of
wild cats, snakes, bugs and other creatures! What will they do? Probably,
the first thing to do would be to  find a good place to hide and stay quiet.

And that's exactly what they are doing: having so many sources of diverse
information, without explicit knowledge about the historical and other
circumstances which led to the current solutions in domain policies - they
don't know who to listen to. So, they consider all our efforts just like
"noise on the lines". Some people are well aware of that. So, the only
thing they would do is to be persistive, to try to make people believe that
their solution is "the best one".

What can we do? Hide in a hole and pretend nothing is really happening?
Or - make MUCH noise and risk that to be misunderstood, according to the
Murphy's rule about arguing ("Never argue with a fool - people might not
see the difference between the two of you")? In my personal oppinion -
making noise is the solution, but doing it in organized manner! How?
Simply - just like a RIPE CENTR response to the US Green Paper: writing
single periodical messages to Ira Magaziner, Becky Burr and other political
folks involved, which would be approved by all (or a majority of) TLD
representatives. A single letter, signed by one person per country might
make much higher noise than some "isolated islands" of messages, written by
a few of us. Besides, like that - we can save time and energy!

That was just my 0.1 YU dinars (= 0.0097 US$) ... ;-)

Best regards,
Beri

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