Andrew, The external deadline is artificial. There is no reason why the current contract could not be extended by a month to accommodate the longer comment period. For that matter it could be extended by a year and ended by mutual agreement whenever the proposal is approved and implemented. Brett ________________________________ Brett Schaefer Jay Kingham Senior Research Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy The Heritage Foundation 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 202-608-6097 heritage.org<http://heritage.org/> From: accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Sullivan Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 10:38 AM To: accountability-cross-community@icann.org Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Timeline and next steps (updated) On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 02:47:36PM +0000, Nigel Roberts wrote:
These deadlines are artificial, and DESIGNED to be exclusionary, so why are you surprised?
With respect, I don't think it is fair to call the deadlines either artificial or designed to be exclusionary. In Dublin we got a very clear count backwards from what the WG has been told is an external deadline. I appreciate as much as anyone the way that the extremely awkward dates are bad for people (they're bad for me too). But the CCWG has made so much progress, and the IANA operational communities are all waiting on the output from this WG. This WG can flip over the table of the transition, of course; but I humbly urge everyone to consider the damage to ICANN and to this community if the transition fails on account of the missing accountability piece. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@anvilwalrusden.com<mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> _______________________________________________ Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org<mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community<https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community>