I couldn't refrain from making a comment. I agree
with you, may be I 'll also sound naive, but like
your both ideas, though the first one would be easier to me.
Thanking you,
Hakik
At 09:24 AM 3/22/2011, tlhackque wrote:
>I've watched this list for some time. It seems
>that railing against the ICANN staff is a
>favorite pastime. Call me naive, but I'm willing
>to believe that the staff isn't evil. Seems to
>me that there are two reasonable approaches to
>having more influence: 1) Identify the key
>staff members, form a positive relationship and
>educate them on our issues and
>perspective. Start by setting up regular
>meetings; eventually they'll call us. 2)Â
>Encourage ICANN leadership to recruit staff
>from our community - identify good prospects,
>see if we can have a representative in the
>hiring/interview loop - so we have people
>inside at at the table. Join them; don't beat
>(on)
>them...Â
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>This communication may not represent my
>employer's views, if any, on the matters
>discussed. Â We need more community involvement
>in the planning of the discussions / meetings
>held during the various ICANN weeks. Besides the
>usual Board/AC/SO/ Constituency meetings held
>during ICANN weeks, the ICANN staff unilaterally
>plan a number of sessions that should require
>input from the community. For example, last week
>in SF's ICANN meeting there was a 90 minute
>session on "DNS Abuse" in which ICANN staff
>unilaterally organized for a series of law
>enforcement officials to provide a "parade of
>horribles" in order to justify less consumer
>privacy protections at ICANN. When I asked ICANN
>staff why there wasn't any privacy experts
>speaking during the public session, the staff
>member said they "assumed privacy was not an
>issue" so did not think to invite any. Obviously
>this is a problem. ICANN staff unilaterally
>deciding what the discussions topics are, what
>the important issues are, how to present them,
>what speakers to invite, and what perspectives
>get heard. The way these discussions are framed
>obviously plays a key role in steering the
>direction of the policy development process. All
>of us Internet users are paying for ICANN, we
>really should have more of a say in how it is
>run and the substance of the discussions planned
>during ICANN week is a good place to start.
>These discussions are a place where the
>community should frame the discussion and set
>the topics, while staff merely facilitate the
>wishes of the community. It feels too much like
>the the tail is wagging the dog at ICANN. How
>can we the community begin to wrestle some
>control away from the staff in terms of how
>topics are selected and how discussions are
>organized during these meetings? Thanks, Robin
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