On 30/01/2016 12:33, Kavouss Arasteh wrote:
/*are you serious?*/ */DO YOU WANT TO sUBORDINATE ONE community ( GAC) to another Community ( GNSO) ?/* */I am sorry that is totally out of question and discusion./*
Dear Kavouss, Your reaction saddens me. I set out what I was trying to do quite plainly: to find some alternative offer to the GAC that would strengthen their role without unbalancing the decision-making process as the 2/3 rule does. I don't believe that what I suggested would subordinate the GAC to the GNSO, but enable it to influence GNSO policy more effectively. Nor would it change the GAC's role at all on other matters. If this suggestion does not meet with your approval, I hope you might come up with an alternative. Because the division over the 2/3 rule is quite destructive. As I see it, if the vote tomorrow overrides the GNSO objection and imposes the 2/3 rule I see two alternatives: 1. The NTIA recognises the lack of support on this from the community most affected by the main focus of ICANN's work, and kills it, and transition with it; or 2. The rule is imposed despite GNSO objections, and ICANN begins its post-transition life constituted on a basis opposed by GNSO. Far from being seen as "more accountable", the perception will be that an opaque process (this CCWG) overrode the community objections expressed a year ago, and reiterated this winter. This will seed in the GNSO lasting distrust of both the GAC and the ICANN structure as a whole. Maybe governments do not see a serious problem in imposing a new settlement without consent: they are after all used to exercising their sovereign authority. But in a multistakeholder organisation like ICANN, this is a poisonous beginning to the new era. I can only pray that other Members, even those who do not worry too greatly about the 2/3 rule for its own sake, have the wisdom not to vote to impose it over the heads of the GNSO objection. 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 Monument Place, 24 Monument Street, London EC3R 8AJ Company Registered in England No. 3137929 Trinity Court, Trinity Street, Peterborough PE1 1DA