<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Nov 13, 2011, at 9:37 PM, David Allen wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>So do you believe that the following report (including the completed actions to date) is not accurate, or for some reason does the implementation that has occurred not count?<br><br><<a href="http://www.icann.org/en/accountability/atrt-implementation-summary-24oct11-en.pdf">http://www.icann.org/en/accountability/atrt-implementation-summary-24oct11-en.pdf</a>><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>As to this additional question:</div><div><br></div><div>The context here concerns - among others - sometimes-years of bottoms-up volunteer effort that is effectively ignored and, instead, preemptively overruled with staff decisions.</div><div><br></div><div>While I am glad to have the link to the pdf, there is nothing there - that I can see - suggesting the core concern is ameliorated, or even broached for consideration.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't know if it addresses your "core concern" or not, but I take the report </div><div>(and the efforts represented in it) as affirmative evidence on the question of </div><div>whether some system weaknesses in accountability and transparency are </div><div>being corrected as a result of community feedback. </div><div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">There are system weaknesses that may be corrected with the transparent monitoring and review through the public feedback about the direct influence reflected on decisions of the external public services.</span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>_Long_ years - and years - of experience make clear that this most decidedly is not so.</div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><br><div>Past experience can be (at best) a predictor of present behavior; such predictions </div><div>are only one data point to be considered (in addition to present day actions) when </div><div>judging whether the problem will continue on or whether the situation will improve.</div><div>I do believe we reference the same ideas and facts, but differ on the analysis and</div><div>therefore probable outcome.</div><div><br></div><div>/John</div><div><br></div></body></html>