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<div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>From</b>: "Robin Gross" <robin@ipjustice.org><br />
<b>Sent</b>: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 3:54 AM<br />
<b>To</b>: "Jordan Carter" <jordan@internetnz.net.nz><br />
<b>Cc</b>: "Steve Crocker" <steve.crocker@icann.org>, "Accountability Cross Community" <accountability-cross-community@icann.org><br />
<b>Subject</b>: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Message from ICANN Board re Designator Model</span>
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<div>I'm in complete agreement with Jordan on this and share the shock and disappointment in this board response to the work of the multi-stakeholder process to hold the board accountable. This is a pivotal moment in which the community can capitulate to the continued abuse of the power we see from ICANN's board, or we can actually stand up and do something about it. I suppose it is the natural reaction of any entity that holds total power and risks losing some of that power to behave in such a way, but it does show that ICANN has not matured sufficiently to be cut lose from oversight any time soon. Truly saddening. </div>
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<div>I'm trying to hold out hope, but sadly and reluctantly I'm coming to this point of view as well. From the 88 questions dumped on the CCWG the night before the Paris meeting to the current red lines, the Board has shown a lack of understanding and respect for a multi-stakeholder model based upon respect and equality. I would be reluctant to turn lose, with no oversight by any public body, as the global n and n authority, a private body so dominated by a group as limited in number and as unrepresentative as the ICANN Board. As to the later I would ask only that those concerned about the representativeness of the SOAC's to take a look at the body most critical of them: the lack of gender equality, in particular, is very striking. Sad. </div>
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