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

[Kerry Brown]

This brings up an important point. In a multi-stakeholder model how do we deal with a community we may not agree with? I don't have an answer for the philosophical question.

I do think that in this particular case, the letter, more harm than good will be done. If people want to continue with this they need consensus and I don't see consensus here and don't see a path to consensus. I'm fine if people want to send the letter. Please don't intimate that the letter comes from a community that has reached a consensus. Please send the letter as a group of individuals not speaking for any particular community.

Kerry Brown

> -----Original Message-----
> From: michael gurstein [mailto:gurstein at gmail.com]
> Sent: March-16-13 8:10 AM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Kerry Brown
> Subject: RE: [governance] COMMENTS SOUGHT: draft letter to ISOC on
> selection of T&A nominees for CSTD WG on EC
> 
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org
> [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Kerry Brown
> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 7:36 AM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> Subject: RE: [governance] COMMENTS SOUGHT: draft letter to ISOC on
> selection 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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