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

[Kavouss Arasteh]

Dear All,
That is not the case,
We may remove the anxiety of supporters of ST18 in the text relating to community mechanism/ empowerment and separate the issue from the traditional GAC advice by keeping the Bylaws as it is
Kavouss 
 

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> On 20 Oct 2015, at 01:28, Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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