On 2015-11-06 23:21, Greg Shatan wrote:
Firstly, very many people consider this clause to be an essential component of trusting ICANN, independent of US oversight. You are only proposing deleting this in response to pressure from the intellectual property community, a stakegroup that many other suspect (not without reason) of aspirations to turn ICANN into precisely what is prohibited by this clause. Deleting it will be seen as only confirming those fears.
GS: I am here engaging in good faith discussion of concerns that I have about this Bylaw. If that's "pressure," than all that everybody does at ICANN is "pressure."
Greg, I did not mean to impute bad faith, and if you took it that way then I apologise for not being more clear. On reflection, I think the above paragraph would have been better with the words "pressure from" omitted. The meaning, as I intended it, would have been just the same. Kind Regards, Malcolm. -- Malcolm Hutty | tel: +44 20 7645 3523 Head of Public Affairs | Read the LINX Public Affairs blog London Internet Exchange | http://publicaffairs.linx.net/ London Internet Exchange Ltd 21-27 St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RY Company Registered in England No. 3137929 Trinity Court, Trinity Street, Peterborough PE1 1DA