I agree delay is not going to help anyone, ‘testing’ the plan will bring us nowhere as the very powers that people have concerns over and wish to test will likely not be used in any reasonable testing period. We will likely not have to spill the board, file community IRPs against ICANN or take recourse to the California courts, and to insinuate otherwise is playing to the people who like to hear the media spin reels around the transition.
Our proposal is sound, is based in strong governance and law, and is ready to be executed. We either believe in the ability of the community to build design and execute or we don’t.
I do.
-James
On 25/05/2016, 06:55, "NCSG-Discuss on behalf of Dorothy K. Gordon" <
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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
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From: "Ron Wickersham" <[log in to unmask]>
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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