<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 1, 2022, 16:55 Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via At-Large <<a href="mailto:at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org">at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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.<br>
For a few relevant snippets to our conversation:<br>
What is government:<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/cIYfiRyPi3o" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://youtu.be/cIYfiRyPi3o</a><br>
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and<br>
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excuses:<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/6Y4PEqvk0Jg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://youtu.be/6Y4PEqvk0Jg</a></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">+1</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br>
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Of course I recommend you get the whole series to watch. Then you'll
be much less bothered about how slow ICANN is.<br>
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Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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<div>On 30/12/2021 19:16, Karl Auerbach via
At-Large wrote:<br>
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<div>On 12/30/21 10:01 AM, Hank Nussbacher
via At-Large wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">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. <br>
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<p>An apt summary of the speed of ICANN procedures may be found in
the works of Charles Dickens, most particularly Chapter 10 of <i>Little
Dorrit</i>: "Containing the whole Science of Government" (See
<a href="https://www.cavebear.com/archive/cavebear/containing_the_whole_science_of_government.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.cavebear.com/archive/cavebear/containing_the_whole_science_of_government.html</a>
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<p>Here are the first two paragraphs:</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p> --karl--</p>
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