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

[Jordan Carter]

+2 - Chris and Andrew, well expressed - and to all, congrats!


Jordan

On Friday, 27 May 2016, Goran Marby <goran.marby at icann.org> wrote:

> +1
> Goran
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On May 27, 2016, at 17:45, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com
> <javascript:;>> 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
> >
> > --
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Jordan Carter
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