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

[Ron Baione]

Any Board or Leadership structure will stay as connected and verbal as possible to keep the part of the group that it feels is fowardly-relevant up to speed. Time delays either are a sign of what you suggested, or a sign that the communty isn't financially able to perform a function worthy of such upkeep, but that doesn't mean non-board members are worthless, because it seems as we do have the intellectual capability to perform our function.  

Could the entire process be controlled by a few just as good as it can be controlled by many?  Yes, only if a vast majority of people don't care to understand the importance of ICANN and us as participants give up.  Non-participants are too distracted by work, media and geopolitical events.  The people here though are vital to keeping an important balance therefore as representative for those distracted and non-distracted, like founders of a country who only need 5% of people to participate in a successful agenda, we as participants must not feel discouraged by any distractions, the distracted, or the unable.  As human beings affected by ICANN, people deserve quality non-board representation.  

The mentor idea could be a good idea if there is an incentive for mentoring, but what funds can or will be allocated for that by a system which is consolidating?  The funds will have to be "funds of the will, funds of the passion for knowledge of importance of such a task", if someone can so articulate the importance.  Intellectuals in history have been gathered and inspired by free funds of the spoken and written word, costing nothing if poetically articulated, and with great and vital progress and counter-balance to ever-buoyant power structures.  Greatness in the future must be, for some time, redefined not by wealth but by intellectual necessity, as occurs from time to time historically.  

Ron
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