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

[James Gannon]

Very very well said, as someone who only got involved in all this quagmire that is ICANN as a result of the IANA transition, and had no experience in internet governance before that, I have to say it has been an amazing experience and is something I am immensely proud to have been involved in and played a part of. It really is something amazing and we all should be very happy today.

James




On 27/05/2016, 17:03, "cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org on behalf of avri doria" <cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org on behalf of avri at apc.org> wrote:

>
>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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