<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Some food for thought from an internal discussion within my company, where the Transition and the CCWG work enjoy serious attention.<br><br><div>Read, in true ICANN manner from the bottom up.</div></div><div><br></div><div>el</div><div><br>Again it gets down to "the way they are going about it". As I've said many times, ICANN has serious deficiencies with its internal capacity. There are too many people there lacking the skills to successfully negotiate this transition. That's why we get the confusions just experienced in Singapore with for example the accountability framework working group. There is no clear message and too many people being Chiefs when they should be toeing the party line. </div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div><div>[...]</div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On Feb 13, 2015, at 09:39, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <<a href="mailto:el@lisse.na">el@lisse.na</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>They are staking their territory early.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't see it happen by September, if at all, myself. And most certainly not the way we are going about it.</div><div><br></div><div>el<br><br>Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini</div><div><br>On Feb 13, 2015, at 01:08, Paul Rosenzweig <<a href="mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com">paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="color:#1F497D">Colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The below may be of interest. The authors are chairmen of two of the four committees of Congress with the most direct interest in the IANA transition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Paul</span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">[...]</b></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-- </span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sent from Dr Lisse's iPhone 5s</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br></span></div></body></html>