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

Mon Dec 31 00:12:25 SAST 2012

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On 2012-12-30, at 3:32 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el at lisse.na> wrote:

> Great and Lerato Ma can choose who she wants on the list...

If they (all of them) resubscribe and agree to abide by the etiquettes. 

> 
> What's wrong with requiring not to use a sock puppet and not to lie?

Nothing's wrong. Great suggestion for inclusion in the new etiquette. 

> 
> And what is wrong with exposing this?

Nothing's wrong. This has been exposed already. There is a need to move on. The suggestions in my previous email is one way of going forward. Feel free to suggest alternatives. 

> 
> el
> 
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> 
> On Dec 30, 2012, at 23:18, Ben Akoh <me at benakoh.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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