[Gnso-igo-ingo-crp] Susan Kawaguchi misleads the GNSO Council on yesterday's call as to Recommendation #5 and "consensus"

[George Kirikos]

Typo as to the exact time of the false statement. It was at 1:22:25
into the Adobe Connect recording (i.e. approximately 1 minute after
Susan started talking about the IGO PDP, which began at 1:21:25).

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
416-588-0269
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 9:13 AM, George Kirikos <icann at leap.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Yesterday, GNSO Council had a call, where the IGO PDP was a topic. See:
>
> https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/council/2018-August/021686.html
>
> for links to the Adobe Connect and MP3, etc.
>
> The IGO PDP topic started at around 1:21:25 into the Adobe Connect recording:
>
> https://participate.icann.org/p377bzpfiry/
>
> At 1:21:25 into the Adobe Connect recording, Susan made a clearly
> false statement regarding Recommendation #5, stating there "was not
> really a consensus on" it!
>
> We know for a fact that Recommendation #5 reached consensus. See page
> 6 of the Final Report at:
>
> https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/council/2018-July/021597.html
>
> which was posted to the GNSO Council.
>
> I found it shocking that Susan would make such an obviously false statement.
>
> I was listening to the call "live", and emailed her (and Heather,
> Rafik and Donna) immediately, asking her to correct her false
> statement (perhaps she intended to say "Full Consensus" --
> Recommendation #1 did reach "Full Consensus", and all the other
> recommendations reached "Consensus"). She did not do so before the end
> of that call, nor since.
>
> I ask that she correct her statement now, lest the GNSO Council
> continue to be misled by her false statement. Failure to do so would
> imply that it wasn't an innocent misstatement, but is instead a
> deliberate falsehood.
>
> As an aside, I'll note that the GNSO Council didn't vote on the Final
> Report in July's GNSO Council meeting, nor at yesterday's call. Nor
> are they likely to vote on anything at the next call in September,
> given yesterday barely scratched the surface on the topic (probably
> most GNSO Council members haven't even read the report yet).
> Yesterday's call was all about process (and trying to undermine the
> report), rather than actual policy and substance. This provides
> further support for the email I sent in July about the premature
> deadline for our report:
>
> https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-igo-ingo-crp/2018-July/001385.html
>
> how our PDP was duped into producing a rushed and half-ready report
> for no good reason.
>
> Susan was right about one thing on yesterday's call, though. There
> will be at least one more "minority" (really a "majority") report to
> come, to attempt to put on the record before GNSO Council (and
> ultimately the Board) what should have been in the Final Report,
> namely the strong reasoning and justification for our recommendations.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George Kirikos
> 416-588-0269
> http://www.leap.com/