<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Well ... in any case I am always in favour of improvement and innovation, particularly for global engagement purposes. And after minimun research, I have to admit this was just a beautiful expression that I am happy to learn. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">So in my case, I will give this a break and keep reading. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">:)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">From wikipedia:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">"In </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">Greek mythology</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"> </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">Scylla</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">(</span><span class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;white-space:nowrap"><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;text-decoration:none!important">/</a></span><span class=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;text-decoration:none!important"><span title="/ˈ/ primary stress follows" style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">ˈ</span></a></span><span class=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;text-decoration:none!important"><span title="'s' in 'sigh'" style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">s</span></a></span><span class=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;text-decoration:none!important"><span title="/ɪ/ short 'i' in 'bid'" style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">ɪ</span></a></span><span class=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;text-decoration:none!important"><span title="'l' in 'lie'" style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">l</span></a></span><span class=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;text-decoration:none!important"><span title="/ə/ 'a' in 'about'" style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">ə</span></a></span><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;text-decoration:none!important">/</a></span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"> </span><span title="English pronunciation respelling" class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none"><i><b><span class=""><span class="" style="font-variant:small-caps"><span class="" style="text-transform:lowercase">sil</span></span></span></b>-ə</i></a></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">;</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">Greek</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"> </span><span lang="el" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">Σκύλλα</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"> </span><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">Skylla</i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"> </span><small style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px">pronounced </small><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Greek" title="Help:IPA for Greek" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;text-decoration:none!important">[skýl̚la]</a></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">)</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;white-space:nowrap">[1]</a></sup><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">was a monster that lived on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite its counterpart</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charybdis" title="Charybdis" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">Charybdis</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">. The two sides of the strait were within an arrow's range of each other—so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass too close to Scylla and vice versa.</span><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">Traditionally the strait has been associated with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Messina" title="Strait of Messina" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">Strait of Messina</a> between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy" title="Italy" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">Italy</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">Sicily</a>. The idiom "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Scylla_and_Charybdis" title="Between Scylla and Charybdis" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">between Scylla and Charybdis</a>" has come to mean <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">being between two dangers, choosing either of which brings harm</span>."</p>
<p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></p><p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Cheers,</p><p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">G.</p><p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-02-03 Maria Farrell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maria.farrell@gmail.com" target="_blank">maria.farrell@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Though in fairness it was a Norwegian speaker who introduced these (presumably Greek?) words to the debate. <br><br></div>In any case, at least you non-English natives have an excuse for not understanding them. ;-)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>

<br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Maria<br></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 February 2014 17:46, Gabriela Szlak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gabrielaszlak@gmail.com" target="_blank">gabrielaszlak@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">... And bear in mind that the purpose - in their own words is- :</div>

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<div class="gmail_default"><ul style="font-family:Cabin,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1.618em 1.618em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(40,40,40);line-height:22.652000427246094px"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline">


<em style="background-color:rgb(246,246,246);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline">Proposing new models for broad, </em><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">inclusive engagement,</span><em style="background-color:rgb(246,246,246);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline"> consensus-based policymaking and institutional structures to support such enhanced functions; and</em></li>


<li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color:rgb(246,246,246)">Designing processes, tools and platforms that </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">enable a global ICANN community to engage</span><span style="background-color:rgb(246,246,246)"> in these new forms of participatory decision-making</span></em></li>


</ul><div><font color="#282828" face="Cabin, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:22.652000427246094px">Google translator cannot even translate those two words... it feels really strange to talk about global engagement and participatory processes only in English and in a an English that it seems also complex for english speakers to get...</span></font></div>


<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:Cabin,sans-serif;line-height:22.652000427246094px">G.</span><br></div><div><font color="#282828" face="Cabin, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:22.652000427246094px"><br>


</span></font></div><div><font color="#282828" face="Cabin, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:22.652000427246094px"><i><br></i></span></font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">


<div><b style="color:rgb(0,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif" lang="ES-AR">Gabriela Szlak </span></b></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif">


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</p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px"></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px"><font color="#003333"><font size="1"><b style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Twitter: @</b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">G</span><font style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">abiSzlak</font></font><br style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:9px">


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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-02-03 Maria Farrell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maria.farrell@gmail.com" target="_blank">maria.farrell@gmail.com</a>></span>:<div><div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


<div dir="ltr">Goodness, I also nearly snorted my coffee but held it down long enough to look up 'scylla' and 'charybdis'. I was chagrinned to learn these new (to me) words were first used in the ICANN context by the beloved Norwegian Harald Alvestrand back in 2002, a few reform movements back. Who knew?<br>



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"The current ICANN has attempted to chart a course between the scylla of doing
nothing and the charybdis of doing everything;" <br><a href="http://www.alvestrand.no/icann/icann_reform.html" target="_blank">http://www.alvestrand.no/icann/icann_reform.html</a><br></div><div><div>
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On 3 February 2014 17:23,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@crediblecontext.com" target="_blank">john@crediblecontext.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



<div>Jonathan,</div>
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<div>My coffee came through my nose this morning when I read the blueprint from the multistakeholder strategy panel.  But, while language like this: "engaging people in meaningful and productive conversations about how to redesign the way ICANN runs itself is difficult because the conversation gets caught, on the one hand, between the scylla of broad generalities and geopolitics without regard to the specifics of ICANN’s day-to-day work, and the charybdis of mind-numbing technical detail on the other" is a bit overblown, it also works as mis-direction. There is no argument but that generalities, geopolitics and technical detail are a part of ICANN's life, but I would argue with "broad" and "mind-numbing."  That kind of language tips the player's hand.</div>




<div><br>Further, by pegging effectiveness to the use of expert networks and linking legitimacy to crowdsourcing at each stage of decision making may only hint at the future shape of ICANN but it is clear in its view that the current version is no longer appetizing.  I will likely think hard about that as I pack for the trip to Singapore.</div>




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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div>Berard</div>
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<div>Subject: [council] FW: Stage 2 Begins: Designing a 21st Century ICANN<br>From: "Jonathan Robinson" <<a href="mailto:jrobinson@afilias.info" target="_blank">jrobinson@afilias.info</a>><br>Date: 2/3/14 1:12 am<br>



To: <a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org" target="_blank">council@gnso.icann.org</a><br><br>Stage 2 Begins: Designing a 21st Century ICANN
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<strong>Sent:</strong> 31 January 2014 19:01<br><strong>To:</strong> <a href="mailto:jrobinson@afilias.info" target="_blank">jrobinson@afilias.info</a><br><strong>Subject:</strong> Stage 2 Begins: Designing a 21st Century ICANN</span></p>




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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060">Today launches </span><em><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060">Stage 2 </span></strong></em><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060">–<strong> Proposal Development </strong>–<strong> </strong></span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060">of our online engagement effort aimed at getting </span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060">your</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060"> input into the Panel’s work in order to bring our ideas for evolving ICANN from principle to practice. The Panel has been specifically charged by ICANN’s President and CEO with:</span></p>




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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060">To answer this charter, we launched a three-stage brainstorm initiative on November 19, 2013. We started with </span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060">Stage 1: Idea Generation. </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060">The Panel and GovLab launched an <strong><span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=49575264ee&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><span style="color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal">engagement platform</span></a></span></strong> asking the global public to share their ideas for what techniques, strategies, tools and platforms ICANN could look to and learn from to help transform itself into an </span><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060">effective, legitimate and evolving</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060"> 21st century global organization. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060"><br>



<br></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060">We now want to take these ideas closer to implementation during Stage 2. To do so, we’ve shared the <a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=b31cd77527&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#6dc6dd">draft proposal blueprint </span></strong></a>on the </span><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060">GovLab Blog </span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060">organizing all of our ideas into 16 concrete proposals for ICANN, which we are </span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060">opening up to you for discussion. </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060">We want your feedback, input, comments, questions, and suggestions on what we’ve collected. We’ve also published our first set of proposals, which include recommendations for ICANN to:</span></p>




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<br></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:dimgray">You can also see all of these materials aggregated on the GovLab's ICANN project page, online <a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=e606d3f2d6&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><em><strong><span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#6dc6dd">HERE</span></strong></em></a><strong><span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif'">.</span></strong></span></p>




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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060">Do you know any people or organizations who would be interested in these proposal topics? </span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060">We’d love to get their feedback, too.</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:#606060"> Consider doing any of the following:</span></p>




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