[governance] Is ICANN listening?

[Avri Doria]

On 29 Jul 2009, at 03:35, cogitoergosum at sbcglobal.net wrote:

> it is not up to the participants in the GA to keep it running it is  
> up to you.

I take that as the responsibility to make sure the list stays up and  
remains orderly, for some definition of orderly.
Additionally I take it as my responsibility to read that list on a  
regular basis.

The list is up, it functions, it is moderately orderly and I read it  
regularly.


I do not think that responsibility extends to trying to make that list  
anything more then a list where people who subscribe and wish to  
comment on ICANN related issues can do so in peace. In fact, without a  
decision of the GNSO Council approved by the ICANN Board, I would see  
trying to change the list as out of scope for me.  That is, I do not  
see my responsibility as being one of trying to make the GA list re- 
evolve into anything resembling what the GA was meant to be before it  
was decimated in the transition from DNSO to GNSO without a proper  
policy process - too many people in ICANN already usurp the right to  
make policy without proper process, and I am not about to become one  
of them  If the list wants to be more then a list or wants to spin off  
real organizations then it is the responsibility of those on that list  
to do so, and I would not hinder that effort.

In a few months I will no longer be a member of the GNSO Council (I  
can hear some people already rejoicing in the background!).  At that  
point I will remain a member of the GA list, and at that point, if I  
want that list to be something more then a basket for complaints then  
it will be become my responsibility as a member of the list to try and  
do something.  Until then, I am just one of the caretakers of the GA  
list who keep it running and nothing more.

a.


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