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

[avri doria]

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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