[governance] COMMENTS SOUGHT: draft letter to ISOC on selection of T&A nominees for CSTD WG on EC

[michael gurstein]

Kerry  and all,

Even in a "multistakeholder community" there need to be rules.  Those rules
need to transparent; those administering the rules need to be accountable;
and their enforcement of the rules needs to be even handed otherwise they
have no legitimacy beyond their own positional authority and brute naked
power (through for example, their control over the distribution of favours,
positions, unaccountable benefits etc.). 

In the absence of those rules and that accountability and transparency you
have the law of the "tribes" in Bill Drake's highly apposite phrasing.

Mike

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of T&A nominees for CSTD WG on EC

I am self-identifying as a member of the CS community, the technical
community, the registry community, the ISOC community, the ICANN community,
the IGF community, and whatever other communities that I may think of. Most
importantly I am a member of the larger community of people interested in
having a say in how the Internet works and is governed. I am part of the
multi-stakeholder community.

I don't agree with the letter. It seems to me the result will be to put up
barriers between communities rather than build bridges linking them. It is
obvious that there is no consensus on this letter as it is. There is no
consensus if there should even be a letter. At the very least this letter
should not be labelled as being from any community other than those people
who sign the letter.

Kerry Brown



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