Civil Society is amazing! They are people that take others rights as if they were theirs and fight for those other peoples' rights to be respected. I am so happy to find NCSG my home in ICANN. It is NCSG that truly holds the hope of saving ICANN from the real MONEY capture- the worst form of dependence and the greatest threat to public interest. Regards, secret documents we discussed them on one of the PDP-WT calls calling for staff to publish whatever they give the Board for the community to have a chance since they always see all of the community's contributions. Additionally protecting the organisation from staff capture. regards, Alex On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Robin Gross <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Important new blog post from Avri about how ICANN policy staff continues to > spread lies to Board about non-commercial users. Disappointing, although > not surprising..... > http://avri.doria.org/post/438544387/secret-board-briefings-a-method-of-icann-capture > Secret Board Briefings a Method of ICANN Capture > > While in a meeting with Board members, a member of my Stakeholder group had > an opportunity to read part of one page of the Policy > Staff’s briefing report to the Board from across the table (some of us > read documents upside down better the we read right side up.) > > In this case it was all they could do to refrain themself from standing up > and yelling “the staff lies.” The lies in this case were repeated lies > first invented by the Commercial Stakeholder Group (CSG) about the Non > Commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG) - that the most diverse Stakeholder > group in the GNSO was not diverse enough. The same group that seem to stand > against all types of diversity requirement in every discussion. > > That this absurd accusation was made by a group that needs an exception from > the geographical diversity clause for council member elections was not > enough to show its absurdity and motivated the Board’s unjust behavior > toward the NCSG in last years Council member appointments (though we dearly > love our Board appointed council members and fully accepted them as part of > ‘us’, the method of their section was wrong and is a slow wound to heal). > > That the non commercial constituency was singled out in the LSE report on > the GNSO as the most diverse of constituencies was also not sufficient to > put lie to the statement. And now the Staff makes the great lie even greater > by including it in the Policy Staff’s briefing papers. > > The Board often talks about avoiding capture. Capture has > already occurred and it is the Policy Staff with its power to whisper lies > into the ears of the Board that this capture is maintained and cemented. > Decisions are being made based on false information. > > How many lies about how many things would we find in a proper review of the > Policy Briefings to the Board? > > How many decisions have been made based upon false information fed to the > Board by the Policy Staff? > > This has to stop now! > > All Board briefing except those on truly confidential matters, must be made > public immediately. > All recent Board briefings on which the Board has based its decisions must > be released immediately. > All future Board briefings must be released to the public at the same time > they are distributed to the Board. > > Additionally, in its review of transparency I hope the AOC Review Panel > takes this pernicious practice to task. > > I understand that the ICANN Policy Staff has a new leader, and in my first > brief meeting with David Olive, I have hope that things may change. Then > again, when Rod Beckstrom first became CEO, I had hope that things would > change. > > And my hope is still waiting. > > I have admitted my great affection/addiction for ICANN on numerous > occasions, but I really do fear that ICANN’s soul has been captured by the > Policy Staff and I worry that it may never recover unless some major changes > happen real soon now. > > > 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] > > >