Tempest in a Tea Cup?

NCSG is a community of interest made up of individuals ranging from 
those for whom NCSG is almost a full time volunteer job to those who 
wish to, or can only afford to, lurk and learn, contributing when and 
where they can. NCSG-discuss postings range across several areas of 
interest from the labour and attention intensive ICANN working groups 
and ICANN policy and implementation agenda to items about issues in the 
parallel universes of Internet governance elsewhere in the Internet 
Ecosystem (e.g. IGFs). Occasionally posting are just items of interest 
for information for NCSG members.

As for ICANN’s CEO, each of us has a different intensity in the watching 
brief we keep on the CEO’s moves and promotional work. As an economist 
my warning flags went up when the CEO started waltzing with the World 
Economic Forum around the Netmundial Initiative. Posting an occasional 
link to the CEO’s activities, or other ICANN activities, is a useful 
reminder of what ICANN is up to, what its public face looks like, and 
IMHO should redouble NCSG efforts to keep ICANN on track. As for posting 
links to what others (GAC, business members, etc.) are up to, an 
occasional reminder of what others are up to elsewhere (e.g. IGF) is useful.

If there is a line to be draw here between NCSG member and staff 
postings, I would suggest that it is useful for the staff to retain 
leeway to post occasional in house ICANN links as information for the 
NCSG community, under an understanding with the Chair of NCSG.

Sam L.