<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div>Any Board or Leadership structure will stay as connected and verbal as possible to keep the part of the group that it feels is fowardly-relevant up to speed. Time delays either are a sign of what you suggested, or a sign that the communty isn't financially able to perform a function worthy of such upkeep, but that doesn't mean non-board members are worthless, because it seems as we do have the intellectual capability to perform our function. <br /><br />Could the entire process be controlled by a few just as good as it can be controlled by many? Yes, only if a vast majority of people don't care to understand the importance of ICANN and us as participants give up. Non-participants are too distracted by work, media and geopolitical events. The people here though are vital to keeping an important balance therefore as representative for those distracted and non-distracted, like
founders of a country who only need 5% of people to participate in a successful agenda, we as participants must not feel discouraged by any distractions, the distracted, or the unable. As human beings affected by ICANN, people deserve quality non-board representation. <br /><br />The mentor idea could be a good idea if there is an incentive for mentoring, but what funds can or will be allocated for that by a system which is consolidating? The funds will have to be "funds of the will, funds of the passion for knowledge of importance of such a task", if someone can so articulate the importance. Intellectuals in history have been gathered and inspired by free funds of the spoken and written word, costing nothing if poetically articulated, and with great and vital progress and counter-balance to ever-buoyant power structures. Greatness in the future must be, for some time, redefined not by wealth but by intellectual necessity, as occurs from time to
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Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Message from ICANN Board re Designator Model <br>
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<td valign="top"><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 6, 2015, at 8:39 PM, Ron Baione <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ron.baione@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return" class="">ron.baione@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class=""><div class="">There is going to be a degree of devolvement in every group that is becoming less relevant to a consolidating power structure, the natural projection of frustration as the new corporate reality becomes clear. The key, if increasing community involvement was actually a long term goal of ICANN's board, would be to show that they are doing something productive to that end, and not just speaking broadly when the temperature of the community rises, in an effort
to run out the clock.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Ron,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would like to highlight the "run out the clock" part of your text; when people ask why the Board took so long to comment, one reason that comes to mind is to leverage time pressure. If the same positions were discussed before, the transition clock would be in less of a hurry, so there would be more time to counter those with rationales and proposals. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Rubens</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></td>
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