[CCWG-ACCT] Summary of current Board sentiment

[Stephanie Perrin]

+1 Well said indeed Avri.  A critical moment.  I hope the community does 
not accept crumbs, but sticks to its guns.  A lot of excellent but messy 
work was done, and that is the whole point.
Stephanie Perrin

On 2015-09-28 9:26, avri doria 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 
> <mailto: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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