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

[Paul Rosenzweig]

LOL .... you give me far too much credit.  If you want to blame me for your failings ... by all means ...


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-----Original Message-----
From: Pranesh Prakash [mailto:pranesh at cis-india.org] 
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 8:28 PM
To: Paul Rosenzweig <paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com>; 'Steve DelBianco' <sdelbianco at netchoice.org>; 'Accountability Cross Community' <accountability-cross-community at icann.org>
Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Stress Test 18: relevant comments from US Congressional staff during Sunday session in Dublin

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.

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