I have a shorter history observing the role of
GAC inside
ICANN, but a longer history of observing governments, and I am the
position
that the transition should take place keeping GAC pretty much in
its existing
advisory role where there are, and will be, continues pressures
for role
modification. It would open up a very dangerous and destabilizing
struggle if “...the GAC dissented from whatever Dublin adopts”.
We need to keep a collaborative
element to the struggles for position within ICANN. Moving to a
pure adversarial stance
in this area would be a lose-lose recipe for disaster.
Sam L.