On 05/08/2012 03:54 PM, Carlton Samuels wrote:
(6) With respect to transparency. the Board has been publishing rationales for each of its decisions
I've seen that it it does represent progress. It is ironic that when I was on the board I was severely criticized by other board members when I made it a practice of publishing the reasons for my votes when I was on the board. (These are still visible at http://www.cavebear.com/archive/icann-board/diary/index.htm ) I find it silly that ICANN continues its mode of one-week traveling circuses. This was originally adopted because "the IETF did it that way". But it evolved into a pressure-cooker week in which it is mainly the participants who meet and the ICANN board becomes nearly invisible except for a few, very few tightly scheduled "meetings" - "hearing" would be a better word as there is very little intellectual interaction, questioning, or give-and-take going on. It strikes me that the periodic week long traveling meetings no longer serve a real purpose and that a new format would better serve everyone, except the hotel, airline, food, and alcohol industries. --karl--