+1 Stephanie Perrin On 2016-05-25 1:55, Dorothy K. Gordon wrote: > There will always be issues that can be used to avoid the transition. Delay is really not going to help in this case. I believe delay will kill this, and we will look back with regret if it does not go forward now. > best regards > DG > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron Wickersham" <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 5:11:00 AM > Subject: Re: great opening statement by Brett > > i'm not convinced that going slow is any kind of attempt to kill the > transistion. i share the concerns Ed and Kathy have enumerated, and > am extremely uncomfortable with the important items that were shuffled > off into workstream 2 just to get these contentious and very important > issues off the table. dividing the work up is ok, but get the whole > work stream parts 1 and parts 2 and if need be parts 3 and 4 resolved > before the actual transition. > > as both a NCUC and NCSG member as well as a USA citizen, i don't see > how my representatives can approve a half-finished plan where the > stakeholders have not resolved important issues -- the only thing > the stakeholders have addressed is how to divide the work into two > streams and agreed on the first part only. > > not every one who shares these same concerns is a USA citizen, these > concerns are not US centric at all. and with the change in leadership > of ICANN in the middle of the process affects the continuity of the > deliberations and adds additional uncertinty. > > i'm on the side of proceeding more slowly. a finished good plan that > is agreed (really a compromise) between all stakeholders will stand on > its own merit and will succeed. > > by overloading with too many separate, sometimes overlapping, groups > makes it impossible for Non-commercial volunteers to participate in > all the important steps. still we can recognize if the final plan > is insufficient to address our valid interests, so we have to see the > end product to adequately judge our position. > > -ron