<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>Or we may have to realize that the Board's fear of the community and the FUD about what we might do, is so great that they will never be able to accept a membership model. The historical and continuing aversion of ICANN's Board and legal advisers to the notion of allowing the community to have any kind of membership may just be part of its nature and something they are incapable of 'blinking' about. It may be the threshold ceiling this experiment in bottom up multistakeholder process can never move beyond. ICANN may, by its very nature and history, never be able to become fully what it aspires to be recognized as.</div><div><br></div><div>It then may be up to the community to decide to take whatever crumbs of accountability we can get. One thing I am certain of, one way or another, ICANN will come out of this process changed. It will either continue to lead in developing a true multistakeholder model. Or it may just settle into a slow decline as another organization that never lived up to its promise.</div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:75%">avri</div><div style="font-size:75%"><br></div><div style="font-size:75%">Sent from a T-Mobile 4G LTE Device</div><br><br><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <epilisse@gmail.com> </div><div>Date:09/28/2015 8:15 AM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: CCWG Accountability <accountability-cross-community@icann.org> </div><div>Cc: Lisse Eberhard <directors@omadhina.NET> </div><div>Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Summary of current Board sentiment </div><div><br></div><div>Ed,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">of course we must give special attention to the Board. Stare them in the face until they blink :-)-O</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">el</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br>-- <div>Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini</div></div><div><br>On 28 Sep 2015, at 06:27, Edward Morris <<a href="mailto:egmorris1@toast.net">egmorris1@toast.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px"><div>Kavouss,</div>
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<div>I personally attach a very hight level of support to the Board,s comments which stem from 17 years of valuable experience. While I support and appreciate public comments but we should give special attention to the valuable comments from the Board and should not put those comments in the sane basket of any other comment received from individual .</div>
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<div>I respectfully disagree with this sentiment. I give no greater weight to the comments of a member of the Board than I do to a comment from the least privileged amongst us. I give power to the idea, not to the person or the organisation making it. </div>
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