[CCWG-ACCT] Answers to some common questions being encountered by the ICANN staff

[Raoul Plommer]

I think we're doing Ted Cruz et al a favor by not correcting them by
somebody from the ICANN board, in the media. Why not phone a journalist and
arrange an interview with one of the papers that published Ted Cruz's
drivel?

-Raoul

On 13 September 2016 at 04:47, John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org> wrote:

> On Sep 12, 2016, at 12:24 AM, avri doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
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> On 10-Sep-16 09:53, Sam Lanfranco wrote:
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> At that point evidence and logic will hold little sway against media
> "sound bites"  that may well be completely false
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> so why aren't we putting out helpful but truthful soundbites?
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> Avri -
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> With respect to the current IANA transition stewardship activities, we
> will
> soon be entering the phase of diminishing media & public influence over
> the outcome as the US Congress appropriation folks and party leaders
> must come to a Continuing Resolution agreement rather quickly if it is to
> be
> passed in time to avoid a USG shutdown on 1 October 2016.  (I do agree
> with the generic need for ongoing & consistent media/public/governmental
> education about our community and its activities, but with respect to this
> particular matter at hand, as it is now in the hands a very small number
> of
> IS congressmen as to whether NTIA will be allowed to continue with the
> IANA contract transition or if a specific prohibition on transition is
> added -
> thus requiring an extension to the IANA contract.
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> There is some clear and highly targeted messaging underway, at the level
> appropriate to the audience – one example is this letter of support from a
> number of Internet related organizations in the US (thanks to Christian
> atI2C for arranging such!)  -  <http://www.circleid.com/
> posts/20160912_tech_heavyweights_to_congress_transition_has_our_support/>
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> Note that overall we are in a very challenging period where most of the
> parties
> involved (both in favor and opposed to the IANA Stewardship transition)
> have
> much more immediate priorities when it comes to the overall USG
> appropriation
> negotiation underway, particularly given the upcoming US Presidential
> election.
> (this task would have been orders of magnitude less risky if done last
> year.)
>
> /John
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> p.s. My views alone.
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