[CCWG-ACCT] [bylaws-coord] For Review - Summary and Analysis of Public Comment and proposed revised ICANN Bylaws

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

This selfcongratulating is positively sickening.

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> On 27 May 2016, at 20:15, James M. Bladel <jbladel at godaddy.com> wrote:
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> Agreed, kudos to all involved.
> *WS1 mic drop*
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> From:  <accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of
> Jordan Carter <jordan at internetnz.net.nz>
> Date:  Friday, May 27, 2016 at 13:58
> To:  Goran Marby <goran.marby at icann.org>
> Cc:  "cwg-stewardship at icann.org" <cwg-stewardship at icann.org>, ICANN Board
> <icann-board at icann.org>, Accountability Cross Community
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> Subject:  Re: [CCWG-ACCT] [bylaws-coord] For Review - Summary and Analysis
> of Public Comment and proposed revised ICANN Bylaws
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> +2 - Chris and Andrew, well expressed - and to all, congrats!
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> Jordan 
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> On Friday, 27 May 2016, Goran Marby <goran.marby at icann.org> wrote:
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> +1
> Goran
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On May 27, 2016, at 17:45, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com
>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
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>> Dear colleagues,
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>>> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:36:04PM +1000, Chris Disspain wrote:
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>>> This has been a long, arduous and at times emotional
>>> process. Through all of the debate, discussion, disagreement,
>>> compromise and journey to consensus there have been many ups and
>>> downs but I have never failed to be anything other than impressed
>>> and sometimes overwhelmed by the commitment of those who chose to be
>>> involved and who have gave their time and effort selflessly to this
>>> process.
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>> I of course want to express my joy that we have crossed this milestone
>> and my congratulations and thanks to everyone involved.  But also, I
>> want to emphasise something in what Chris says above.
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>> Doing things in the sort of open ways that the various Internet
>> operational communities do is hard work.  Feelings run high, and
>> because we work on the Internet and in full view of everyone it takes
>> a great deal of personal discipline and good will for people to come
>> to compromises.  And yet, over and over again, the community delivers.
>> "Awesome" is a much-overused word, but if ever I have felt awe it is
>> in response to the ability of people from many different backgrounds
>> and points of view, and with divergent needs, to come together in the
>> best interests of the Internet.
>> 
>> When I was in Washington earlier this week, there were a couple times
>> when I thought the line of questioning contained an underlying
>> implication: that you can't _really_ trust this sort of important
>> responsibility to an amorphous bunch of people on the Internet.  But
>> the Internet works because of the way we work things out.  We forge
>> proposals and build the future in the furnace of public discussion.
>> The Internet functions for everybody partly because everybody is
>> invited to help make it function.
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>> We do, together, what none separately could do.  The doubters will
>> continue to deride our ways as naïve and amateur, but our ways -- of
>> coming to consensus and constantly respecting the value of that
>> consensus -- give our results both effectiveness and the greatest
>> legitimacy.  I am enormously grateful to be part of what can only
>> properly be called a global community.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> A
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