[CCWG-ACCT] Message from ICANN Board re Designator Model

[Edward Morris]

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 From: "Robin Gross" <robin at ipjustice.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 3:54 AM
To: "Jordan Carter" <jordan at internetnz.net.nz>
Cc: "Steve Crocker" <steve.crocker at icann.org>, "Accountability Cross 
Community" <accountability-cross-community at icann.org>
Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Message from ICANN Board re Designator Model   
 I'm in complete agreement with Jordan on this and share the shock and 
disappointment in this board response to the work of the multi-stakeholder 
process to hold the board accountable.  This is a pivotal moment in which 
the community can capitulate to the continued abuse of the power we see 
from ICANN's board, or we can actually stand up and do something about it.  
I suppose it is the natural reaction of any entity that holds total power 
and risks losing some of that power to behave in such a way, but it does 
show that ICANN has not matured sufficiently to be cut lose from oversight 
any time soon.  Truly saddening.  
  
  
 I'm trying to hold out hope, but sadly and reluctantly I'm coming to this 
point of view as well. From the 88 questions dumped on the CCWG the night 
before the Paris meeting to the current red lines, the Board has shown a 
lack of understanding and respect for a multi-stakeholder model based upon 
respect and equality. I would be reluctant to turn lose, with no oversight 
by any public body,  as the global n and n authority, a private body so 
dominated  by a group as limited in number and as  unrepresentative as the 
ICANN Board. As to the later I would ask only that those concerned about 
the representativeness of the SOAC's to take a look at the body most 
critical of them: the lack of gender equality, in particular, is very 
striking. Sad. 
  
  
  


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