[CCWG-ACCT] Communications Ideas

[Paul Rosenzweig]

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Paul Rosenzweig
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-----Original Message-----
From: Malcolm Hutty [mailto:malcolm at linx.net] 
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 5:40 PM
To: Nigel Roberts <nigel at channelisles.net>
Cc: accountability-cross-community at icann.org
Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Communications Ideas



> On 28 Sep 2015, at 20:30, Nigel Roberts <nigel at channelisles.net> wrote:
> 
> the Board are still against it and therefore it won't happen.

I don't accept such defeatism. We need to continue to work to improve our
proposal to make it the best it can be: taking into account Board input, but
not merely deferring to their preference. And then we must report. As Kieren
puts it 

"Tell that to Congress and then let ICANN Corporate explain why their
approach is better."

If we do that we will have discharged our duty, to faithfully propose the
means by which oversight of ICANN can be transitioned to the global
multistakeholder community. If higher powers then decide that they don't
actually like the idea of such transition when they see what it truly looks
like, well that's on them. My guess is that they would be much more loath to
reject the considered community view than we now suppose. 

If, on the other hand, we submit a proposal we know to be flawed out of an
untested fear that others demand such flaws, then posterity will condemn us,
not them.  
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