On 18 Aug 2009, at 10:24, Adam Peake wrote:

> ust think that had the offer been made earlier it would have been  
> more difficult for the manipulation you're concerned about to  
> happen. There might have been a real opportunity for those  
> interested to do some outreach, not handing out cash to anyone who  
> asked, but a "community" effort. Now it will be staff led.


I do not see any reason to allow it to be 'staff lead.'  at least not  
without getting in their face every time they do something that  
deviates from bottom-up processes.  This should be one of the things  
that the NCSG works  on once it is formed - to remove the control from  
staff of process that should be bottom-up.  ICANN must be made to live  
up to its hype. And new constituencies must spring from genuine  
communities - not Policy Staff created assemblages.

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