<p dir="ltr">Re: your summary Avri.<br>
Seems to me, when we look at the current board and structure through the lens of the current transition/accountability proposals, there is a mismatch in terms of achieving a desired level of bottom up multistakeholder governance....or seems that may be your current view.</p>
<p dir="ltr">But let me ask: If we already have the kind of board and composition of board necessary to achieve what the community aspires to, then surely, the exercise we are currently engaged in would be a tea party in comparison. (?)</p>
<p dir="ltr">The minimum acceptable position has been put on the table by the ntia surely? I'm not sure that crumbs are going to be acceptable. Nor should it be.<br>
Is it the board or the community that needs to step up in this regard?</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 28, 2015 9:26 AM, "avri doria" <<a href="mailto:avri@ella.com">avri@ella.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><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 <<a href="mailto:epilisse@gmail.com" target="_blank">epilisse@gmail.com</a>> </div><div>Date:09/28/2015 8:15 AM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: CCWG Accountability <<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org" target="_blank">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>> </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><br></div><div>of course we must give special attention to the Board. Stare them in the face until they blink :-)-O</div><div><br></div><div>el</div><div><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" target="_blank">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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