Rebecca:
Thanks for sending this message and for
making the commentary on Circle ID.
You say:
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From everything I have observed,
the
This is not quite right.
You wrote:
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Based on what various people at
ICANN have told me, there appear to be
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concerns amongst some members of
the ICANN board that the NCUC is dominated
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by a certain group of American
lawyers and academics, who for some reason they don't like
What this means is, “Lawyers and
academics who are critical of ICANN and many of its policies.” Since when
does the management of an organization that is supposed to be accountable, in a
bottom up manner, to stakeholders decide that it will decide which of these
stakeholders it will listen to and which it will not? The “American”
charge is ridiculous because the LSE report showed – and a glance at any
statistics concerning composition confirms –that NCUC is is more
geographically diverse than any other GNSO entity. What these people are trying
to say is, “if you’re critical of us and what we do, you’re can’t
possibly be representative.” But the more people from the noncommercial
sector get involved, there is no substantial change in the SG’s political
approach.