To: cardicis@funredes.org, CIVIC <icacaribbean@dgroups.org>,
Daniel Pimienta <pimienta@funredes.org>, Jacqueline Morris
   <jam@jacquelinemorris.com>, Jacob Malthouse <jacob.malthouse@icann.org>

It seems to me that this debate has made apparent some very important
issues that may not have been clear before, and that we should be
sure to capture them before they evaporate, and see if we can't come
up with strategies to address them.

In no particular order:
1. "We" do not know enough about ICANN and its functions although
some of us are very much better informed than others.
Jacqueline has been doing an excellent job of bringing issues back to
the group for feedback. The group does not always respond
effectively. In the spirit of self-reflection, can this response be
improved? How? What are the impediments?
Jacob is now working punctiliously to inform us. Perhaps Jacob could
provide background documents, or links, which seem to him to fill the
knowledge gaps that have made themselves apparent, to the various
clearinghouses with a BRIEF cover message describing content. After
that it becomes up to us to read :-)

2. "We" have VERY strong feelings about translation. This is a major
priority issue for us. There is disagreement, in the case where a
choice has to be made, whether preference should be given to
informing or to supporting the right to speak. Should there need to
be a choice at all? Can we do things to actively publicise this
"communication crevasse"?

3. Priorities - who should decide them and what are they?
Consultation is often tedious, yet surely there is an ethical
responsibility to get some sense of what the people the project is
for think about the way it is going to be carried out

4 Perceptions, what "we" assume that "we" all take for granted. This
debate has spread rapidly through CARDICIS and CIVIC to MISTICA.
Might this not create an opportunity for increased articulation among
the three groups?

Other people will have noticed other things and be able to add to the
list. I think that the current debate offers a really good learning, growing,
clarifying experience. What does everyone else think?

Deirdre

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Nearby Thu Mar 9 17:18:04 2006