I fully agree with Malcom here. And think personally that yes we have reached that point. Thank you Malcom for summarising the situation in a very similar light to my own personal views. -James On 16/12/2015, 10:22 a.m., "accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org on behalf of Malcolm Hutty" <accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org on behalf of malcolm@linx.net> wrote:
I think sooner or later we must reach that point, and if the Chairs say that we reached it with publication of the Third Draft Report I will accept their judgement.
If that is where we are, then the correct approach to the Board's substantial disagreements with core aspects of our proposal is simply to proceed on our current path: we convey our report to the Chartering Organisations and, with their support, deliver it to the Board as the final, considered community view. If the Board chooses to reject the community view, that's on them. The Board may back down, and support our proposal. And it may not, in which case it will be up to the NTIA to decide whether it agrees with us (and demands cooperaion from a recalcitrant Board) or with the Board (and so concludes that this community is not sufficient mature to be able to accept transition).