<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">Dear Ken</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">Thank you. As a community participant, I am more than in favour of the community fully participating and contributing to the budgetary process. But rather than think in terms of defined and rigid processes or veto powers, if we could work towards a model wherein the community would participate even at the budgetary proposal stage, discuss and debate long term and short term expenditure items in a climate where the Board and Staff would listen with commitment and enhanced respect, respond and to some extend decide together with the community, it would be far less complicated. Veto or any other form of obstructive power is intricate, especially in the context of what we normally discuss in ICANN in the context of capture, unless such powers are articulated akin to Impeachment provisions that are almost never invoked. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">Also, the analogy (analogies are never perfect) is not only about the powers related to budgetary processes, but very broadly about various process changes being discussed.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">Sivasubramanian M</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy" target="_blank">Sivasubramanian M</a></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Salaets, Ken <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ksalaets@itic.org" target="_blank">ksalaets@itic.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>As someone who unfortunately rides Metro five days a week, it's true that the system is a mess, but it has more to do with a lack of a dedicated revenue source other than a fares, and constraints on workforce recruitment. Ridership has steadily declined
for a variety of reasons, amplifying the challenges with lack of infrastructure investment, staff training, etc. </div>
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<div>True, having multi-state governance doesn't help, but it is not the core issue and, with due respect, is not a corollary to giving the community a voice in ICANN budget matters.</div>
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<div>Finally, Metro expansion as contemplated has been completed. Metro did recently expand rather significantly beyond the original vision, i.e., the Silver Line, but alas, the addition is contributing to Metro problems in tangible ways, and is accelerating
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A co passenger on the Washington DC Metro remarked that Washington DC metro is far less efficient in making design improvements and in effecting upgrades. The top job was vacant for over 7 years before 2011, and vacant again since February 2015 with all leading
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<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">The </span><b style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority</b><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"> (</span><b style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">WMATA</b><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">),
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States Congress</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"> as an</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_compact" title="Interstate compact" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial" target="_blank">interstate
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