[governance] ICANN - Request for Proposals for Independent Evaluator for GNSO Review

[Danny Younger]

Veni,

I recall a session with you and Tom Niles at the USCIB
offices in NYC where I put forward one possible
solution on paper to deal with At-Large
considerations.  To refresh your memory, I will
forward the Word document to you.  Now it's your
turn...
what will you propose to restore representative rights
to the At-Large?

--- Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:


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note: keep in mind I speak here as Veni, and I do not
represent ICANN,ISOC, or any of the Boards I am into. 

Danny,
Thank you for your letter! 
You put problems on the table - something, which I've
been doing enoughin my life, to find out that it's
better to put the problem, and proposea solution. Now,
the solution may not be ideal, but it will be
something.
When you put your problems on the table, they are some
of the problemsconfronting ICANN. Do you think that it
will be fair to start solving theproblems that you
have on the table first? What will other people,
whohave other problems for the ICANN say? Why the
community does not comewith a priority list, while not
forgetting that ICANN, among other items,needs to run
a few core businesses, on which the Internet develops?

I'd spend more time on prioritizing, putting the
problems, and suggestingsolutions, than just naming my
own problems. If I am to start with theBulgarian
problems, I'd started with something quite different
fromwhat's your problem in the USA. 
Let me randomly browse through your message from my
perspective, ofsomeone coming from a country in
transition: 

At 14:35 17-12-05  -0800, Danny Younger wrote:
Bottom-up input was totallyignored by a Board that
lacks the ability to deal with any criticism.  
When you blame the whole Board, you blame everyone of
its members. Ibelieve that you - as a native-English
speaker - are aware of the powerof words, and have not
made this mistake by accident. When you say aBoard
should be able to deal with criticism, you probably
mean plaincriticism, not the constructive one, which I
personally have been askingthe community to provide.
It's very easy to criticize, and very difficultat the
same time to provide solutions.

Organization itself, you arepre-ordaining the type of
conclusion that you will inevitably be receiving.
Again, not quite right - just look in the many
examples in the last year.

If you really want constructivework to be
accomplished, why don't you start by putting together
a Board-level plan to restore at-Large directors to
the Board. 
Can you give solution for it, as we both know what are
the problems here,but I guess you must be one step
ahead, since you put this problempublicly? 

It's something that is capableof being
done and it remains something that would serve the
interests of the broader Internet community.  
Again - give solution, please. What you say is another
problem. Also - Iguess you know how this should be
done? Not in a mailing list, not in theform of an
argument, right? 

...but don't preach to me aboutbeing constructive
while you and your peers on the Board continue to deny
representative rights to us. 
Who is "us"? The users? I am a user. The people from
developedcountries, who take so many things for
granted, just because happen to beborn in the West?
Please, don't tell me that - I know much better
whatpeople in developing countries think, and they are
the majority of theInternet users. Do you know how
much they care about the ICANN Board andtheir
representation there? 

We've done our bit for
ICANN; what has the Board done for us?
I guess you're not serious here, giving a
cover-version of JFK's quote,right?

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