Avri Doria wrote: > 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. It is suggested by staff that it should be staff led - but that is wrong - that is not how ICANN is described, and how ICANN is projecting itself. > > > 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. > > a. Thanks Avri - I fully agree. This is an old problem, but it became more of a problem over time. I remember that also GNSO had problems sometimes when we wanted to have some staff assistance - and we were told that they may have different priorities. Norbert -- 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 of the Mirror: “Every Khmer citizen shall be equal before the law" http://tinyurl.com/krt6gy (To read it, click on the line above.) And here is something new every day: http://cambodiamirror.wordpress.com