+1 Lou On 2/15/2013 11:33 PM, David Cake wrote: > http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-15feb13-en.htm > > Very pleased to see that NCSGs endorsed candidate, Avri Doria, in on > the team. Congratulations Avri, very pleased to have your depth of > wisdom about process and your strong voice for transparency and > accountability on the team. Interesting that after all the debate > about GNSO endorsement, only 2 of the 4 GNSO endorsed candidates got > picked. > > Somewhat boggled to see that Stephen Conroy, who is the Australian > Communications Minister, is on the team personally. He is a very > senior minister in a fairly embattled government, during an election > year. He has never shown any direct involvement in ICANN before - he > turned up when ICANN was in Sydney, but only for the necessary few > hours for his speech, and didn't discuss much ICANN specific. I'd be > very surprised if he puts the appropriate level of effort in, actually > it would be very problematic domestically if he did (for example, it > certainly isn't enough of a priority for him to justify skipping > parliamentary sitting weeks to attend ICANN meetings, given he is > leader of the government in the Senate). I imagine he will drop out > quickly, and probably try to have an underling sit in for him (I'd > guess one of the Aus GAC reps) even though that isn't valid according > to the RT rules. I look forward to hearing how this pans out. I should > note that relationships between Electronic Frontiers Australia and > Stephen Conroy are generally a long way from good - he once accused us > in Parliament of an orchestrated campaign to mislead the nation, for > example, and we successfully led the campaign against his (radically > unaccountable and non-transparent) policy to filter Australian > internet access. > > Cheers > > David >