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

Mon Dec 31 08:59:05 SAST 2012

Ben and All

The list is working fine.  We have a few incidents of abuse what we need to do is fix them.  Drastic measures are not necessary.   The Diversity of the list members and their thinking is the value of the list.  Even when someone will go to length to argue a very clear point insisting that 1+1 could equal to more than 2.

At the end of the day the community being other members on the list silent and vocal will make their decisions based on their own understanding of the situation.

We are at this point because of the passion we all have for what we do and for Africa.  Some of us passion will blind us to push an agenda at all costs.  That happened and the perpetrator accepted and offered an apology and seems to have decided to be silent.  However we have other members who still think that was not wrong and will try everything to justify the simple fact that 1+1 can equal 10.

Here again we have seen un unprecedented deterioration where personal insults have been thrown to highly respected community members which I think is very wrong.  There has just been one simple question asked and never been answered.  ( I personally have made up my conclusion on the avoidance.  "You only claim the 5th amendment when a response could implicate you").

Which takes me back to the definition of credibility.  1) intent   ( what is the intent of the listers taking the positions they try to defend and what value is it for the community. )  Give due credit belated as it may be to Ms Sofia for accepting her wrong.
2) Integrity ----how can I honestly measure the integrity of one who will defend a wrong where that person who wronged has accepted the wrong ???  But they go to length to defend the wrong even stooping low enough to insult a respected member of our community.  ( you do not need to like someone to respect them)

3) Capabilities  .. We all in our spheres have capabilities and that is our contribution to our society and community but we need to accept that some are more capable than us and have delivered allot more than we have.

4) Results….. Since the list got personal again we need to look at the credibilities from how we evaluate results and I would suggest we look at 3 simple indicators: past performance, current performance, and anticipated performance.

I think when we look at those simple points we know where the credibility in this entire saga goes.

I honestly would like to ask those wanting to make us accept a wrong to call it a day.  There is and will be allot more to discuss on this list.  We cannot change our list policies and principles to fit into how they see the world.  I.e a wrong can be transferred to other people to justify the end.

Sorry for the long email but I do hope the point has been made.

Badru

From: Ben Akoh <me at benakoh.com<mailto:me at benakoh.com>>
Reply-To: "<africann at afrinic.net<mailto:africann at afrinic.net>>" <africann at afrinic.net<mailto:africann at afrinic.net>>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:18:05 -0600
To: "<africann at afrinic.net<mailto:africann at afrinic.net>>" <africann at afrinic.net<mailto:africann at afrinic.net>>
Cc: "<africann at afrinic.net<mailto:africann at afrinic.net>>" <africann at afrinic.net<mailto:africann at afrinic.net>>
Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Is it relevant to know who is who on the AfrICANN list?

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<mailto: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<mailto:lnankep at yahoo.fr>> wrote:

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Salam.
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