[CCWG-ACCT] Addressing future scenarios in the present

[Seun Ojedeji]

Hi,

I believe a lot of planning has already gone into this CCWG work and while
mitigating is a good practice let's not mitigate to the point of locking
ourselves in.

Have you ever experienced that situation where you put that killer firewall
rule with the intent of blocking off the (possible) bad guys but then it
locks you out as well while you are running remotely. Well you may say the
engineer was not good enough as there are ways to prevent it, but again we
are humans and when time factor kicks in, anything can happen.

We should mitigate as many scenarios within the time frame available and
any mitigating solution whose impact is not entirely clear should be noted
and further worked upon in future. The CCWG has gone quite far in her work
already and a lot of thoughts has been thrown into this, the fact that one
particular scenario is not addressed now does not imply the end of the
world which is where your point about flexibility in governance structure
comes in. It can always be included when deem necessary in future.

Regards

Sent from my Asus Zenfone2
Kindly excuse brevity and typos.
On 22 Nov 2015 22:48, "James Gannon" <james at cyberinvasion.net> wrote:

> While I appreciate the situation your describing I have to fundamentally
> disagree with its application to our situation, its a prime example of why
> we should be acting now.
>
> Its both prudent risk management and good corporate governance to have
> strong planning in advance, to consider a wide range of possibilities and
> mitigate for them, to assess the potential risk of edge cases and determine
> if they need mitigating actions, and to design governance structures that
> are forward looking and flexible. To advocate for a case by case break/fix
> as it happens approach is exactly what we should not be doing and to do so
> would show how little we understand about the structures we are trying to
> create. Lets not go down that path.
>
> -James
>
> From: <accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of
> Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>
> Date: Sunday 22 November 2015 at 9:38 p.m.
> To: "accountability-cross-community at icann.org" <
> accountability-cross-community at icann.org>
> Subject: [CCWG-ACCT] Addressing future scenarios in the present
>
> Hello,
>
> Just thought I should share this interesting situation in one of the
> states in my country:
>
> There was a governorship election yesterday and the electoral commission
> declared the result inconclusive, due to the difference in the votes of the
> 2 top candidates. The leading candidate died after announcement of the
> election status. There then arise a question about what the next action
> could be:
>
> - The constitution has a provision for installing the deputy governor if
> the governor elect dies, but in this case there is no governor elect yet.
>
> - The electoral act has a provision to replace a candidate who dies before
> the election, but in this case election has been conducted just that it's
> inconclusive and electoral body is yet to announce next step of action.
>
> The legislative arm of government cannot update constitution overnight to
> address this scenario neither can such be done on the electoral act. It
> remains a puzzle that has been left in the hands of the judicial system of
> the country to address.
>
> Why are my saying all these, it's to emphasis that one may not be able to
> capture all the possible scenarios until they are experienced and when they
> are experienced, the board and community  should be ready to address them
> on case basis, including updating the governing document if applicable. It
> is my hope that we face this realistically going forward.
>
> Thanks for reading the short story,(apologies in advance if this annoys
> anyone) do have a wonderful week ahead.
>
> Regards
>
> Sent from my Asus Zenfone2
> Kindly excuse brevity and typos.
>
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