No, I won’t even consider that or a similar approach. Because ignoring will never prove you wrong and you will just continue working on the assumption that you are right. You will not get new insights that might change your view. And that is one of the reasons why there is so much frustration about ICANN (staff) in the community: we assume that nothing has changed and will change. And continue to share past bad experiences.

I will (continue to) compare what ICANN (staff) says that the NTIA says and thinks, with what the NTIA says and says it thinks.

Cheers,

Roelof

From: Jordan Carter <jordan@internetnz.net.nz>
Date: donderdag 30 april 2015 22:16
Cc: Accountability Cross Community <accountability-cross-community@icann.org>
Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Ominous update on the IANA transition

My own approach to this is to ignore anything that any ICANN board or staff members assert about what the NTIA says or wants. I will listen to NTIA officials on that subject, but nobody else.

ICANN as an institution has too much at stake and too much of a history of trying to asset its interests in these debates for anyone to take its alleged analysis of what NTIA would or would not put up with seriously.

I can only urge you all to at least consider a similar approach.