[CCWG-ACCT] FW: Fwd: FW: ICANN Board Comments on Third CCWG-Accountability Draft Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations

[Paul Rosenzweig]

Andrew

My answer to you is the same one the Milton gave -- the Board's threat to
veto is a "my way or the highway" statement that is unfortunate and contrary
to their promise to the Senate.  In particular, the ground was whether they
would refuse to submit a proposal that diminished their authority.  Fadi
said they would submit such a proposal if it came from the community.  The
Board now says that such a proposal is not in the GPI and it will veto it
...

Paul


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-----Original Message-----
From: 'Andrew Sullivan' [mailto:ajs at anvilwalrusden.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 10:24 AM
To: accountability-cross-community at icann.org
Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] FW: Fwd: FW: ICANN Board Comments on Third
CCWG-Accountability Draft Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 09:32:29AM -0500, Paul Rosenzweig wrote:
> You are also ignoring the fact that the Board's threat is completely 
> contrary to the promise of the CEO to the Senate that the Board would 
> transmit whatever proposal it got from CCWG-A without modification.  I 
> find the Board's threat and behavior deeply unfortunate.

I don't see where in its comments the board said it would fail to transmit
the CCWG-A's output without modification.  Can you point that out, please?

It seems obvious to me that, if the board transmitted a proposal along with
the observation that at least 2/3 of the board members do not believe it to
be in the global public interest, that would be a bad thing.  But I'm not
yet convinced the distance between the views is unbridgeable, as long as we
take everyone's efforts to be in good faith rather than assuming they're
attempts to force some view on others.  We may yet fail, but there's no
reason to fail early.

Best regards,

A

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