+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