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

Sivasubramanian M isolatedn at gmail.com
Fri May 27 23:53:08 UTC 2016


https://www.icann.org/news/blog/new-icann-bylaws


Congratulations to everyone.​


On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>
wrote:

> +1 Andrew! thanks to the board and the entire global "internet community"
> that contributed to this rather rare activity. This step is an indication
> that progress can be made amidst our diversity when there is an agreement
> on the end-point.
>
> A big thank you to the community for accommodating one another (to some
> extent), we should improve on it even as we look towards the next task i.e
> WS2.
>
> That said, it's not over yet and I hope that the end-point would indeed be
> achieved. A special occasion to celebrate this(perhaps at the next face 2
> face) may be in order!
>
> Regards
>
> Sent from my LG G4
> Kindly excuse brevity and typos
> On 27 May 2016 6:45 p.m., "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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