Re: [gnso-whois-wg] Proposed final version of the group's output report v1.8

[Dan Krimm <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2:43 AM +0000 8/18/07, John Levine wrote:

>In the WHOIS debate, some people believe that the perceived privacy
>interests of a relative handful of individual domain registrants trump
>the interests of the billion Internet users who have to deal with the
>consequences of the actions of all registrants, and some believe that
>they don't.  (You can probably guess which way I lean.)  There is no
>consensus, and there never will be.


Such politically-laden and sharply biased rhetoric demonstrates precisely
why consensus never had a chance.  With such a stance coming into this WG,
there is clearly no incentive for consensus from the start.

It is doubtful that any cultural or procedural modifications would change
such potentials for common ground.

Dan

PS -- The politics of "versus" directly obstruct all attempts to build on
common ground to discover consensus.  Strategies that rely upon unilateral
political dominance are counterproductive for the commonwealth.  I view
such strategies as social poison, just personally.

In any case, this is all just for the ICANN staff and Board to ponder in
the wake of whatever comes out in the final draft report for this WG.  I
hope they find it illuminating, if not necessarily reaffirming.