[CCWG-ACCT] Summary of current Board sentiment

Rudolph Daniel rudi.daniel at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 13:59:51 UTC 2015


Re: your summary Avri.
Seems to me, when we look at the current board and structure through the
lens of the current transition/accountability proposals, there is a
mismatch in terms of achieving a desired level of bottom up
multistakeholder governance....or seems that may be your current view.

But let me ask: If we already have the kind of board and composition of
board necessary to achieve what the community aspires to, then surely, the
exercise we are currently engaged in would be a tea party in comparison. (?)

The minimum acceptable position has been put on the table by the ntia
surely?  I'm not sure that crumbs are going to be acceptable. Nor should it
be.
Is it the board or the community that needs to step up in this regard?

RD
On Sep 28, 2015 9:26 AM, "avri doria" <avri at ella.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Or we may have to realize that the Board's fear of the community and the
> FUD about what we might do, is so great that they will never be able to
> accept a membership model. The historical and continuing aversion of
> ICANN's Board and legal advisers to the notion of allowing the community to
> have any kind of membership may just be part of its nature and something
> they are incapable of 'blinking' about. It may be the threshold ceiling
> this experiment in bottom up multistakeholder process can never move
> beyond. ICANN may, by its very nature and history, never be able to become
> fully what it aspires to be recognized as.
>
> It then may be up to the community to decide to take whatever crumbs of
> accountability we can get.  One thing I am certain of, one way or another,
> ICANN will come out of this process changed. It will either continue to
> lead in developing a true multistakeholder model. Or it may just settle
> into a slow decline as another organization that never lived up to its
> promise.
>
> avri
>
> Sent from a T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <epilisse at gmail.com>
> Date:09/28/2015 8:15 AM (GMT-05:00)
> To: CCWG Accountability <accountability-cross-community at icann.org>
> Cc: Lisse Eberhard <directors at omadhina.NET>
> Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Summary of current Board sentiment
>
> Ed,
>
> of course we must give special attention to the Board. Stare them in the
> face until they blink :-)-O
>
> el
>
> --
> Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini
>
> On 28 Sep 2015, at 06:27, Edward Morris <egmorris1 at toast.net> wrote:
>
> Kavouss,
>
>
> I personally attach a very hight level of  support to the Board,s comments
> which stem from 17 years of valuable experience. While I support and
> appreciate public comments but we should give special attention to the
> valuable comments from the Board and should not put those  comments in the
> sane basket of any other comment received from individual .
>
>
>
> I respectfully disagree with this sentiment. I give no greater weight to
> the comments of a member of the Board than I do to a comment from  the
> least privileged amongst us. I give power to the idea, not to the person or
> the organisation making it.
>
> Ed
>
>
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