[AfrICANN-discuss] Is it relevant to know who is who on the AfrICANN list?

[Ben Akoh]

The following steps may be required to bring sanity to this list:

1. Unsubscribe everyone. 
2. Create a list etiquette (etiquette should contain dos and don'ts, including respect for others. I can volunteer to develop this and anyone that may be interested in doing so. List purpose and goals that Adiel suggested should be reiterated). 
3. Create a new list with the same address. 
4. Send etiquette to emails harvested from step 1. 
6. Interested persons wanting to participate in wholesome, progressive discussions should subscribe to new list created in step 3. 

I have studied several platforms/strategies/processes for public policy dialogue that lead towards substantive policy change. Online discussions is one useful and effective but not the only way. A toolkit describing other ways can be downloaded from here: http://www.iisd.org/publications/pub.aspx?pno=1619

If your response to my comments above would not profit anyone else, please direct it at me only. Save Africa's meager bandwidth. 

Best wishes!

Sent from my iPhone

On 2012-12-30, at 2:50 PM, Adiel Akplogan <adiel at afrinic.net> wrote:

> Hello Pierre,
> 
> Allow me to make few comments on this poll. What is it purpose? 
> Who is/is_not entitle to take the poll? How do you control that? 
> For it to have the weight that you wish, it may has: 
> 
> 1 - not to be anonymous - this list being an open forum of 
>     discussion created specially with that intend. People 
>     expressing opinion on how the list must be run should 
>     be known and be able to transparently display their views.
> 2 - to be taken only by people who have been on the list and/or 
>     active on it over the past minimum 2 years. (If I want the 
>     result of the poll to go into a particular direction what 
>     prevent me to request all my family, my dogs, my cats, 
>     neighbours to take the poll and say what I want them to say?.
> 
> Trying to meet the above 2 points alone will make you quickly 
> realise that the poll by itself is inappropriate to answer the 
> question you are asking … 
> 
> On a more general note, has it happened to any of you who are 
> vehemently questioning the expertise of people on the list and 
> trowing stones all over to ask yourself what is the genesis of 
> this list? What was it purpose and objective? Who came up with 
> the idea and to achieve what? I think trying to understand that 
> a lone would have cut 90% of this never-ending loop of the debate 
> that is going on for a while now.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> - a.
> On 2012-12-30, at 11:09 AM, Pierre Lotis NANKEP <lnankep at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Poll on the question : Is it relevant to know who is who on the AfrICANN list?
>> 
>> Please click to express your own opinion... or http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SKFJXJN
>> 
>> Live result by December 30, 2012 (08:30 am GMT) :
>> 
>> Number of voters : 22 (+4)
>> 
>> Origin of voters :
>> 1. Cameroon (41.202.205.250)
>> 2. Gambia (212.60.65.174)
>> 3. USA - New York - Holtsville (75.37.44.104)
>> 4. Japan (115.162.51.10)
>> 5. Malawi (41.78.59.20)
>> 6. Comoros (197.255.232.2)
>> 7. Kenya (197.176.11.64)
>> 8. Mauritius (197.225.46.34)
>> 9. United Kingdom (93.186.23.82)
>> 10. South Africa (41.244.138.47)
>> 11. Togo (41.207.184.25)
>> 12. Cameroon (41.202.201.63)
>> 13. United Kingdom (93.186.31.85)
>> 14. Togo (41.207.171.105)
>> 15. Germany (78.41.227.84)
>> 16. Senegal (41.82.142.219)
>> 17. Uganda (41.202.233.177)
>> 18. Cameroon (195.24.206.125)
>> 19. Nigeria (41.220.69.43) 
>> 20. Mauritius (197.225.59.10) 
>> 21. Switzerland (178.193.208.123)
>> 22. Nigeria (41.71.162.180)
>>   
>> Please click to express your own opinion... or http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SKFJXJN
>> 
>> The vote will end by December 31, 2012, at 23H GMT. Only 2 days left.
>> 
>> Thanks to those who already voted... The results will be published on January 1rst, 2013.
>> 
>> Let us be guided by ethics...
>> 
>> Salam.
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