[WSIS CS-Plenary] Oversight: Are we forgetting principles?

[carlos a. afonso]

MIlton,

-----Original Message-----
From: "Milton Mueller" <Mueller at syr.edu>
To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
Cc: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:47:53 -0400
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Oversight: Are we forgetting principles?
[...]
> Now we are in a situation of thrashing about superifical ideas on the
> fly, which to an external observer kinda looks like a medical
> operating
> room with the surgeon saying, "let's move the heart over here and put
> the liver over there," and his assistant saying, "no, let's sew it
> onto
> the lungs over here," and the janitor walking by and saying, "seems
> to
> me you could yank that whole mess out and he'd be better off," etc.,
> etc. 
> 
> When we are reduced to that level of improvisation, isn't it clear
> that
[...]

Wow! This is an apt and very "sanguine" way to describe how ICANN
handles TLD delegation/redelegation these days! This is one of the
reasons why we want to change things.

rgds

--c.a.