Andrew My answer to you is the same one the Milton gave -- the Board's threat to veto is a "my way or the highway" statement that is unfortunate and contrary to their promise to the Senate. In particular, the ground was whether they would refuse to submit a proposal that diminished their authority. Fadi said they would submit such a proposal if it came from the community. The Board now says that such a proposal is not in the GPI and it will veto it ... Paul Paul Rosenzweig paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com O: +1 (202) 547-0660 M: +1 (202) 329-9650 VOIP: +1 (202) 738-1739 Skype: paul.rosenzweig1066 Link to my PGP Key -----Original Message----- From: 'Andrew Sullivan' [mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 10:24 AM To: accountability-cross-community@icann.org Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] FW: Fwd: FW: ICANN Board Comments on Third CCWG-Accountability Draft Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 09:32:29AM -0500, Paul Rosenzweig wrote:
You are also ignoring the fact that the Board's threat is completely contrary to the promise of the CEO to the Senate that the Board would transmit whatever proposal it got from CCWG-A without modification. I find the Board's threat and behavior deeply unfortunate.
I don't see where in its comments the board said it would fail to transmit the CCWG-A's output without modification. Can you point that out, please? It seems obvious to me that, if the board transmitted a proposal along with the observation that at least 2/3 of the board members do not believe it to be in the global public interest, that would be a bad thing. But I'm not yet convinced the distance between the views is unbridgeable, as long as we take everyone's efforts to be in good faith rather than assuming they're attempts to force some view on others. We may yet fail, but there's no reason to fail early. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@anvilwalrusden.com _______________________________________________ Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community