[New-imc] Freedom's removal from new-imc

[Sarsnic at aol.com]

I think it may have seemed suspicious to many people that Freedom was joining on as a new volunteer during the period of time for raising blocks to the proposal to ban Arc.  

It probably seemed to many people that having either Freedom or Arc on new-imc would be problematic because Arc and Freedom both continually tried to use the approval of Rogue IMC as battle ground for a position which they wouldn't clearly explain on any list: namely that no IMCs should be allowed to use 2/3 voting.  

I personally felt that Rogue IMC's approval or even the new-IMC list at all was an inappropriate forum for this conflict.  What would have been much more straightforward would have been to formulate a proposal regarding a ban on all voting in any form of moidified consensus at any IMC.  Such a proposal probably wouldn't have even reached consensus in Ithaca much less throughout a whole network that has not even consensed on the Principles of Unity.  But this would be a more direct way of addressing their concern.

I believe strongly that sucha new interpretation of the Principles of Unity is not up to new-imc to make until there had been affirmation on process.

I have some concerns regarding Freedom's participation in new-IMC until he affirms that new-IMC is not the appropriate forum for resolving a conflict about whether 2/3 voting is to be banned in the IMC network.  I have similar concerns about another idea Arc has raised banning the use of any form of proprietary media format from the network.  

That being said, I have had good off-list discussions with Freedom since the whole conflict occurred and I look forward to continuing to work with him in the IMC network.  I think the us-process list will help resolve these conflicts more easily in the future without so many of us wanting to back off so as not to burden the whole world with inter-US conflicts.

Peace
Nick