Two replies to specific comments At 20/09/2015 05:40 AM, Nigel Roberts wrote:
Nice try. But I'll bite anyway . . .
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What I find interesting is that the Board, instead of merely pointing out the disagreements or potential workability issues with the CCWG's plan, has put together its own competing bid
This is a Catch-22 that I have found myself in several times during the CWG-IANA and the CCWG-Accountability. If you criticize something without providing an alternative it is either ignored or discarded because it the view of some, there is no viable alternative. If you provide an alternative you are criticized for not following due process in developing bottom-up ideas.
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Once the transition happens, there is no incentive for anyone to fix anything that we don't like now.
ICANN will, in law, simply be a private company, entirely owned by its Board.
Except that at the very least, we will have the ability to get rid of a Board (or parts of it) that refuses to agree with where we want to go. Alan