On 09/04/2009 12:52 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
I find recent actions of the BGC, such as this selection and the repudiation of the Westlake report for the ALAC review, that still give me some hope for ICANN's future; they speak well of the growing respect of At-Large.
I don't think the word "repudiate" accurately reflects how our (the ALAC review working group) report addressed the Westlake report. Rather, we accepted much of it, we found a few places where we gave different weight to the competing concerns, and, in the case of the board seat issue, we found the Westlake argument to have weight, along with some misunderstanding of a foundation matter, but that, ultimately, their reports argument was not, at least not to us, compelling. One may as well say that the board repudiated our report when it dropped the number of directors from the public to one from our report's two. But that, too, would be to use too strong of a word. The Westlake people had a hard job; they did a pretty good job of it given the constraints. --karl--