[governance] Fixing an ICANN problem

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Ray and all,

  I have participated on several of these RAA forums in the past,
but have found that they are not open and transparent/or open
to any and all that wish to participate.  This in and of itself
is misguided and very suspicious accordingly.  

-----Original Message-----
>From: Ray Plzak <plzak at arin.net>
>Sent: Nov 11, 2009 12:39 PM
>To: "governance at lists.cpsr.org" <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Danny Younger <dannyyounger at yahoo.com>
>Subject: RE: [governance] Fixing an ICANN problem
>
>Perhaps a closer look at the way the RIR policy fora work would be a good thing to do. All of them have active email lists and well attended policy meetings (which by the way are not at ICANN meetings).
>
>Ray (speaking for myself)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Danny Younger [mailto:dannyyounger at yahoo.com] 
>Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 08:38
>To: Governance List
>Subject: [governance] Fixing an ICANN problem
>
>ICANN recently published a study of constituency participation in working group activities -- see http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg07806.html
>
>The attendance rosters paint a very sad picture -- two constituencies in particular (the ISPs and the NCUC) had no member participation whatsoever in several working groups:
>
>Registration Abuse Policies WG
>Inter-Registrar Transfers WG-A
>Inter-Registrar Transfers WG-B
>Community Communications Coordination WG
>
>These two constituencies also had very limited attendance in other working groups:
>
>Policy Development Process WG
>Post Expiry Domain Name Recovery WG
>
>Not listed in this report was participation data for some of the newer working groups such as the Registrar Accreditation Amendments WG and the Registrant Rights WG that similarly have seen no active participation by members of these two constituencies.
>
>When some constituencies fail to participate at the working group level it is almost inevitable that whatever recommendations emerge will be skewed as a result of imbalanced input -- clearly this is not a healthy situation.
>
>On this list are many veterans of the ICANN process.  What suggestions might you offer to improve this overall situation?
>
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