<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">On 11 May 2017 at 12:53, Glenn McKnight </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><<a href="mailto:mcknight.glenn@gmail.com" target="_blank">mcknight.glenn@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>We need to address these issues before we disappear completely</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Perhaps disappearing is not a bad idea.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Volunteers are spread thin and have to prioritize their energy, and in the end this effort may simply not have been compelling enough to merit its own committee.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">At one point I got tired of inaction and started a Facebook group designed to enable At-Large members to discuss the ICANN-relevant issues of the day. It wasn't promoted because it wasn't "official", few participated and I eventually closed it down. In retrospect I am not sure if the effort failed because I didn't follow the standard formalized procedure for doing things this way.... or if people simply didn't feel the need for such a forum whether official or otherwise.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">So at least in my case the effort didn't die for lack of trying.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">The lesson learned? Agonizing about diversity of voices is pointless when at the end of the day almost nobody has anything substantive to say.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">- Evan</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div></div>
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