[At-Large] ICANN Accountability Mechanisms

[Carlton Samuels]

+1.

I echo OCL's sentiments.  I, for one, hold that those series are
documentaries on government even as they are comedies. I wholeheartedly
recommend you follow Sir Humphrey.

Carlton

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On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 6:25 AM Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via At-Large <
at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:

> For a more recent explanation of the workings of Governments (and
> governing bodies should take note), may I suggest a UK Series "Yes
> Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" which has been qualified by many as
> being a documentary about government, rather than comedy.
> For a few relevant snippets to our conversation:
> What is government:
> https://youtu.be/cIYfiRyPi3o
>
> and
>
> excuses:
> https://youtu.be/6Y4PEqvk0Jg
>
> Of course I recommend you get the whole series to watch. Then you'll be
> much less bothered about how slow ICANN is.
>
> Kindest regards,
>
> Olivier
>
>
> On 30/12/2021 19:16, Karl Auerbach via At-Large wrote:
>
>
> On 12/30/21 10:01 AM, Hank Nussbacher via At-Large wrote:
>
> 3.  ...  based on my experience with ICANN processes, a 4 month delay is a
> mere second in ICANN time. I would start complaining only after 4 years.
>
> An apt summary of the speed of ICANN procedures may be found in the works
> of Charles Dickens, most particularly Chapter 10 of *Little Dorrit*:
> "Containing the whole Science of Government"  (See
> https://www.cavebear.com/archive/cavebear/containing_the_whole_science_of_government.html
> )
>
> Here are the first two paragraphs:
>
> The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the
> most important Department under Government.  No public business of any kind
> could possibly be done at any time without the acquiescence of the
> Circumlocution Office.  Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in
> the smallest public tart.  It was equally impossible to do the plainest
> right and to undo the plainest wrong without the express authority of the
> Circumlocution Office.  If another Gunpowder Plot had been discovered half
> an hour before the lighting of the match, nobody would have been justified
> in saving the parliament until there had been half a score of boards, half
> a bushel of minutes, several sacks of official memoranda, and a
> family-vault full of ungrammatical correspondence, on the part of the
> Circumlocution Office.
>
> This glorious establishment had been early in the field, when the one
> sublime principle involving the difficult art of governing a country, was
> first distinctly revealed to statesmen.  It had been foremost to study that
> bright revelation and to carry its shining influence through the whole of
> the official proceedings.  Whatever was required to be done, the
> Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the
> art of perceiving--HOW NOT TO DO IT.
>
>     --karl--
>
>
>
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