[governance] Fwd: [] CALL FOR STATEMENTS OF INTEREST:

[Cheryl Langdon-Orr]

Karl we have specifically discussed this and taken the advice of ICANN
Legal Council and the SIC  so we (At-Large) are proceeding in a manner that
will allow us to meet our planned time table and the recent resolution of
the Board... so again as happens from time to time this is one of those
points where we will just have to "agree to Disagree" with each other...

Cheryl Langdon-Orr
(CLO)



On 23 July 2010 19:14, Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> wrote:

> On 07/22/2010 06:34 PM, Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote:
>
>> Hi Karl and list,  inserted below is (part) of an email I sent on this
>> matter to the NARALO list from a question raised by Avri on the matter
>> of approved processes... I trust these links will assist you re
>> background on this...
>>
>
> All of the materials are "draft" of "preliminary".  Indeed even a proposed
> bylaw amendment is still open for comment.
>
> One usually discovers that it is unwise to pour concrete before the
> architectural design is established.
>
> In other words it is premature to start gathering names.
>
> In addition the proposed methods are in conflict with our recommendations
> in the board-level review of the at-large that the process for the public to
> chose its ICANN director(s) reach far beyond the bounds of the ALAC to
> encompass potentially any interested person affected by the internet whether
> or not that person chooses to participate in any ALAC body or sub-body.
>
> As it stands it appears that what is being created is a YANC - Yet Another
> Nominating Committee.  In which case an appropriate question would be "why
> bother?"
>
> Which brings to mind MacBeth's metaphor upon hearing of the death of his
> wife: have all of our years of effort to give the community of internet
> users a real voice within ICANN come to be nothing more than "a tale told by
> an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"?
>
>        --karl--
>
>
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