<div dir="ltr">Hi all<div><br></div><div>I largely agree with Steve delB and Avri in this thread, but just one thought further:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 July 2015 at 07:44, Steve Crocker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@shinkuro.com" target="_blank">steve@shinkuro.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">We have two strongly competing perspectives in play. One is that it’s late in the game and history doesn’t or shouldn’t really matter. We’re dealing with principles and a concern for the future, not specific incidents in the past.<div><br></div><div>The other perspective is that much of this work is, in fact, being driven by reactions to past incidents and it would be helpful to have these on the table so we can understand whether we need new layers of structure or just better administration of existing layers.</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I thought the explicit rationale for the CCWG's work was to deal with developing an accountability settlement for ICANN in the environment that will exist after the expiry of the IANA functions contract.</div><div><br></div><div>So I am not sure which of those two perspectives it fits into - it feels like the second half of your first perspective, Steve.</div><div><br></div><div>As one of the people on this list with the 'shortest' memory of ICANN, but a much longer memory and experience of ccTLD governance in a case that replicates many features of the ICANN environment, I'm def interested in the future.</div><div><br></div><div>J</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Jordan Carter<br><br>Chief Executive <br><b>InternetNZ</b><br><br>04 495 2118 (office) | +64 21 442 649 (mob)<br><a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz" target="_blank">jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a> <br>Skype: jordancarter<br><br><i>A better world through a better Internet </i><br><br></div></div></div></div>
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