Re: understanding consensus

[Kevin Brown <kevinbr@netcomm.ie>]

Vince,

the way I see this draft is like this:

A bunch of greedy peckerheads are looking a juicy piece of land, and filing
for planning permission to build peckerhead condos.

One small fact, though. They didn't do a title search. But hey argue about
where to put the tennis courts and should we have a swimming pool.
Peckerheads are greedy, they don't care that thay don't have clear title to
the land ( read ".")

I say pull back a while and figure out a better way to see who owns these
peice of land first.


Kevin
Who make f*** all from any of this, I am poor and landless :-)

At 20:43 +0300 28/12/96, Vince Wolodkin wrote:
>Could be that only those with money on the line contributed to the mass
>posting over Christmas yet.  I couldn't believe the volume.  I think
>many are interested, just not enough to argue with people whose cheif
>concern over the proposal is how it affects THEM.
>
>The proposal should be viewed for its merits to the public at large.
>Chris, your particular statements are ridiculous.  Things like
>(paraphrasing) "If you don't change this, we won't be involved and will
>seek other avenues."  Fine, do it.  Who cares.  I think your attitude
>has shown that you aren't a particularly good candidate to run a
>registry.  Of course, that's just my opinion, and its worth about as
>much as yours.
>
>I've become a little disillusioned with this process, I mean, there are
>3 or 4 people involved in this process who don't give a damn about
>anything but their pocketbook.  This isn't a moral judgement, but the
>opinions of those whose sole ambition is their own prosperity shouldn't
>even be counted toward consensus.  I guess you could call it a conflict
>of interest.
>
>I think the draft has done rather well at representing consensus.  Many
>people on this list posted just once or twice,(prior to the draft) I
>recall their messages as generally agreeing in spirit with the draft.
>The large bulk of the small posters seemed to prefer treating the
>namespace as a public trust, having shared registries, and generally
>wanting things to handled without making anyone else rich.
>
>And yes, I know NSI is getting rich, but they were there to bid on this
>cheeseball contract before any of these people who want to run a
>registry ever heard of the internet.  You can call this business savvy
>or dumb luck, they play about the same in my book.  In any case, they
>were there and they picked up what turned into a lucrative government
>contract.
>
>I think the bulk of the people just don't have the energy to argue with
>the four horsemen(you can figure who they are;-)
>
>Vince Wolodkin
>
>Christopher Ambler wrote:
>>
>> Then that begs the question - if this is such a hot topic, where are
>> all the posters? If this topic is such that only 10 people are making
>> the vast majority of the posts, and there seems to be agreement
>> amongst most of them on some points, wouldn't that suggest that
>> most people, while interested, don't care?
>>
>> If the IAHC is getting comments from outside of this list - the list
>> that THEY set up to discuss this issue - they should post it here so
>> we can accurately gauge the opinions of those who care to give them.
>>
>> As to the rest, the lurkers, they are urged to speak up, but nobody
>> can force them. If consensus is made by 20 people when only 20
>> people care to speak, then so be it, no?
>>
>> --
>> Christopher Ambler
>> President, Image Online Design, Inc.


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