[CWG-Stewardship] [CCWG-ACCT] TR: [bylaws-coord] For Review - Summary and Analysis of Public Comment and proposed revised ICANN Bylaws

[Greg Shatan]

I'll applaud and echo the words of Chris, Andrew and James.  What we do
here is awesome, even if it is messy.  As someone who was highly
GNSO-centric before the IANA Transition, these two working groups brought
me into the orbit of other stakeholder subcultures and introduced me to
other participants in this Grand Experiment beyond the usual gang.  It also
provided a depth of understanding for other perspectives of ICANN, internet
governance, and the internet itself, and it deepened my technical knowledge
significantly.  I am now an incredibly more well-rounded netizen.  Even if
we had not succeeded, it would have been worthwhile for those reasons
alone.

But we have succeeded.  Of course, that doesn't mean we are finished --
quite the opposite.  But as we keep going on this endless version of the
Amazing Race, we'll be doing it in a community more tightly bound and in an
institution/ecosystem that has more of the community's fingerprints on it
than ever before. Congratulations to all of us!

Greg

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 3:01 PM, James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net>
wrote:

> Very very well said, as someone who only got involved in all this quagmire
> that is ICANN as a result of the IANA transition, and had no experience in
> internet governance before that, I have to say it has been an amazing
> experience and is something I am immensely proud to have been involved in
> and played a part of. It really is something amazing and we all should be
> very happy today.
>
> James
>
>
>
>
> On 27/05/2016, 17:03, "cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org on behalf of
> avri doria" <cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org on behalf of avri at apc.org>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >indeed!
> >
> >avri
> >
> >On 27-May-16 11:55, Gomes, Chuck wrote:
> >> Very well said Andrew.
> >>
> >> Chuck
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >>> On May 27, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Dear colleagues,
> >>>
> >>>> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:36:04PM +1000, Chris Disspain wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> This has been a long, arduous and at times emotional
> >>>> process. Through all of the debate, discussion, disagreement,
> >>>> compromise and journey to consensus there have been many ups and
> >>>> downs but I have never failed to be anything other than impressed
> >>>> and sometimes overwhelmed by the commitment of those who chose to be
> >>>> involved and who have gave their time and effort selflessly to this
> >>>> process.
> >>> I of course want to express my joy that we have crossed this milestone
> >>> and my congratulations and thanks to everyone involved.  But also, I
> >>> want to emphasise something in what Chris says above.
> >>>
> >>> Doing things in the sort of open ways that the various Internet
> >>> operational communities do is hard work.  Feelings run high, and
> >>> because we work on the Internet and in full view of everyone it takes
> >>> a great deal of personal discipline and good will for people to come
> >>> to compromises.  And yet, over and over again, the community delivers.
> >>> "Awesome" is a much-overused word, but if ever I have felt awe it is
> >>> in response to the ability of people from many different backgrounds
> >>> and points of view, and with divergent needs, to come together in the
> >>> best interests of the Internet.
> >>>
> >>> When I was in Washington earlier this week, there were a couple times
> >>> when I thought the line of questioning contained an underlying
> >>> implication: that you can't _really_ trust this sort of important
> >>> responsibility to an amorphous bunch of people on the Internet.  But
> >>> the Internet works because of the way we work things out.  We forge
> >>> proposals and build the future in the furnace of public discussion.
> >>> The Internet functions for everybody partly because everybody is
> >>> invited to help make it function.
> >>>
> >>> We do, together, what none separately could do.  The doubters will
> >>> continue to deride our ways as naïve and amateur, but our ways -- of
> >>> coming to consensus and constantly respecting the value of that
> >>> consensus -- give our results both effectiveness and the greatest
> >>> legitimacy.  I am enormously grateful to be part of what can only
> >>> properly be called a global community.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>>
> >>> A
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Andrew Sullivan
> >>> ajs at anvilwalrusden.com
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