<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Keith, Jordan, all,<div class="">thank you for your messages. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As said, we will speak to this and propose a way forward that is hopefully supported by most, if not all in the group.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Thomas</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 14.04.2015 um 10:00 schrieb Drazek, Keith <<a href="mailto:kdrazek@verisign.com" class="">kdrazek@verisign.com</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="">I agree with Jordan here. It's important we produce a directional document that can be shared with our respective communities. The sooner we do this, the sooner we can make adjustments if needed. We have made tremendous progress and we need to keep up
the momentum, if not the pace. Thanks to all who are carrying the heaviest loads.</div>
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On Apr 14, 2015, at 8:01 AM, Jordan Carter <<a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz" class="">jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div class="">I wanted to share my thoughts on this topic as many others have done.</div>
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<div class="">Overall I am uncomfortable with the overall pace of our work, but think we can make it work for us, for the cwg, and for the community.</div>
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<div class="">I only think this because we have changed our timetable and our process to give ourselves much more time - from a final comment doc being finalised on 6 April to a second comment doc being finalised in July, and a whole additional ICANN meeting cycle to
talk with the community.</div>
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<div class="">While the detail of the work we are doing is complex, we do have time to do it right.</div>
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<div class="">We also have given ourselves time, in my view, to share our core direction and proposals with the community in the right level of detail by the end of this month.</div>
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It is vital that we make clear what this first comment document is soliciting - an affirmation of direction or a production of alternative ideas for us to explore.
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<div class="">I would like a more gentle pace, and I would like more time — we are not at the point right now where more time wont help.</div>
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<div class="">But I also want this transition to happen, and I don't want our accountability work to slow it unnecessarily.</div>
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<div class="">I've seen enough of the legal comment and had enough conversations with you all to be confident of what we are proposing as a legitimate package to ask our communities about. I don't especially like it, but I have not seen divides or gaps of a scale that
demand another schedule rewrite.</div>
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<div class="">None of this should be taken as a reflection on those who have a different view - I'm just sharing my opinion.</div>
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On Tuesday, 14 April 2015, Robin Gross <<a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org" class="">robin@ipjustice.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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I must join in the chorus of voices saying that this compressed timeline is not going to produce a quality proposal. Sure, we can slap something together, which only a small handful have thought about, but we won't get anywhere close to doing our best work,
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We just don't have the time to think through all of the issues that must be thought through and to have answers to the questions that are foundational to the rest of our work. The confusion about what is actually being proposed and then advice that doesn't
address what is under consideration is but one example of how the quality of our work is suffering by the frenetic pace.<br class="">
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Either this group is in charge of its own processes, or it isn't. It is beginning to look like the group is not in control, as imaginary imposed "deadlines" are the main driving consideration for us now. Not quality. This is a grave mistake. We simply must
take the time to think all of this through and engage with the community on these crucial matters. That is the only way to get a quality result. The rush job to meet imaginary deadlines is creating greater problems every day and will only exacerbate as we
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I remain committed to participating in a dozen or so calls a week, but I'm under no illusion that this last-minute cram job will be any more effective at building global governance institutions than it is to college freshman learning on the night before their
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