[governance] Speakers for IGF - ideas?

[Avri Doria]

On 7 sep 2007, at 02.41, Danny Younger wrote:

> After the Council finished their discussion on the
> report's principles, recommendations and
> implementation elements they proceeded directly to a
> vote without any structured discussion of the public
> comments -- the formal review of the public comments
> as mandated by the agenda never happened.


i disagree with this assessment.

the review was done before walking through recommendations as opposed  
to after that. but having listened to the whole call, i expect you  
know that. i thought it was important that the set of views be known  
before we went through each of the recommendations. we also brought  
up the comments during the discussions.   perhaps the discussion  
wasn't as focused on the comments as you would like, but as has been  
said by others, those comments are not only part of the record, they  
are part of the materials that board will be able to consider  in  
deciding whether they agree with the recommendations.  and it will  
the board's option to send the package, or any one oof the  
recommendations back to the council to ask for clarification or to  
tell us to do further work.

i know you think the council should have thrown out several of the  
recommendations based on public comments.  it is true, the public  
comments did not serve as a veto.  but i do deny that the council  
members were  not aware of the comments and did not consider them in  
casting their votes.  i expect the board will also consider them.

i do think that ICANN's GNSO policy development process needs to be  
fixed and needs to incorporate the review of public comments much  
earlier in the process.  and there are better ways of incorporating  
public views into the process.  but i deny the accusation that the  
GNSO council doesn't care or does not listen.

a.
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