[CCWG-ACCT] Where do we stand?

[Nigel Roberts]

Thoose of you who have known me since before the days that ICANN was 
incorporated, and sicne the IFWP know that I have participated all 
along, and that I continue to particpate.

Yet even I feel excluded from the accountability work. And that despite 
the fact I have voluntarily restricted myself to a small subset of the 
work (principally the goal of incorporating a human rights committment 
into the eventual ICANN bylaws).

How am I excluded? By the volume and frequency of the expected interactions.

As the director of a small ccTLD organisation, I have limited time and 
resources.  Yet, at the moment, the CCWG work seems to demand more time 
and effort than even being a member of the Board of ICANN would!

Accordingly, those who are paid to do this, have a distinct advantages, 
and their views, whether representative of consensus or not, naturally 
predominate.

But it's all academic, since no matter what the consensus outcome, the 
Board reserves the right to reject it anyway.



> Very few individuals participating and of those few many participate
> a lot.
>
>>From where I am sitting, industry is calling the shots.  From the
> bottom-up.  All the way.
>
> el