[CCWG-ACCT] Stress Test 18: relevant comments from US Congressional staff during Sunday session in Dublin

[Pranesh Prakash]

Paul Rosenzweig <paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com> [2015-10-19 
13:55:33 -0400]:
> I add only one additional point – the statements below by the congressional staff who were in Dublin mirror precisely what the NTIA representatives have said in the CCWG on any number of occasions (most clearly, that I recall, in Paris in March).  By all means, if you want the transition to fail, insist on deleting ST18.  But then you will bear the blame.  For one thing is certain – without ST18 the transition will fail.
>

If it does fail for this reason, it won't be the fault of the GAC for 
refusing to accept a ridiculous amendment to the by-laws which has 
nothing to do with the fears of governmental capture or turning ICANN 
into a "government-led" body, because as has been pointed out countless 
times, that just isn't a possibility with non-binding advice regardless 
of whether the Board is required to respond to it only if it delivers 
advice by consensus or not.

It will be the fault of the CCWG and the NTIA for insisting on an unjust 
amendment that makes no sense to most of the world — and in private 
conversations multiple people in ICANN will tell you that.

The outside world won't blame GAC.  They will blame you.

Thanks, Paul, for holding a gun to the GAC's head.  But do make sure it 
doesn't backfire on you and the NTIA.

-- 
Pranesh Prakash
Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society
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