I agree with Norbert's statement whole-heartedly. Robin On Feb 4, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Norbert Klein wrote: > On Wednesday, 4 February 2009 22:53:04 Milton L Mueller wrote: > > > I agree, this is a very important, fundamental point: > > if the functions and roles of board and staff are not clearly seen > as what > they are - very separate levels of responsibility - it is easy that > the > control of certain processes gets located at the wrong level. > > And the fact that the GNSO Council took the fact that there was > limited > communication between the ICANN public at the Cairo meeting and the > Board as > an occasion to write to the Board and appeal for rectification, > shows also > the opinion that it is important to uphold the role of the Board > against all > dangers of being weakened. > > I am more interested what the Board hears and decides, than what is > reported > to be "the opinion of some [unnamed] people at ICANN." > > > Norbert Klein > > = > >> I would support Avri's statement for the most part. My only >> quibble would >> be to be careful about this: " ICANN staff, under direction of the >> Chairman, allowed for questions to be posted after the Meeting and >> subsequently answered by appropriate staff." >> >> While obviously staff should answer questions directed to them, i >> would not >> want to encourage ICANN to treat this kind of staff mediation as a >> _substitute_ for direct interaction with the Board at Public Forums >> >> Milton Mueller > > > > > > -- > If you want to know what is going on in Cambodia, please visit > The Mirror, a regular review of the Cambodian language press in > English. > > This is the latest weekly editorial: > > Censorship: Thousands of Crude Porn Sites Accessible on Internet - > One Khmer > Artist Blocked > http://cambodiamirror.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/censorship-thousands- > of-crude-porn-sites-accessible-on-internet-%E2%80%93-one-khmer- > artist-blocked-sunday-122009/ > (To read it, click on the line above.) > > And here is something new every day: > http://cambodiamirror.wordpress.com (English) > http://kanhchoksangkum.wordpress.com (Khmer) > > PGP key-id 0x0016D0A9 IP JUSTICE Robin Gross, Executive Director 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: [log in to unmask]