RE: [ga] DNSO role in DNS policy

["Roberto Gaetano" <ga_chair@hotmail.com>]

Joanna,
>Roberto Gaetano wrote:_
>I'll buy that, the board can act regardless clauses etc...
>I think it would be interesting to check the audience on whether it would 
>be
>good to do so.
>
>I'm not arguing with either part, I'm just trying to move from the legalese
>to the pragmatic, and ask whether a feedback from the DNSO community would
>be a *good thing*.
>Then, of course, the board will decide. But I would not pass on the chance
>to give the opinion.
>
>Whatever that may be.
>
>
>Roberto,
>Please don't take this as a personal attack, but "sitting on the fence"
>strikes me as an extraordinarily weak position for somebody who is viewed 
>as
>the only representative to the NC of those GA Members who are currently
>excluded from existing constituencies.

I do not think that any disagreement has to be necessarily a "personal 
attack" ;>).
First, on the "form". I am not a "representative to the NC" of anything or 
anybody. I am not invited to participate to the NC meetings (even if I think 
that this would be a *good thing*).
On the substance, I believe that we have a different interpretation of the 
role of the Chairman (see below).

>
>Question: Shouldn't the (new) GA Chair be tearing down the walls? Why 
>should
>it be necessary to condone the use of loopholes in the Bylaws to justify
>access to ICANN at the highest levels?

IMHO, the GA Chair should facilitate the consensus in the GA and bring this 
consensus forward, independently from his/her personal opinions.
In other words, I don't think that it is the role of a Chairman to take a 
strong position (unless there is already consensus on it) ad orientate the 
debate in one direction or the other. As a paradox, the Chair should be much 
more attentive to give voice to those who speak little, than to multiply the 
decibels of the loudest voices.

Maybe this different interpretation should be taken into account in the 
choice of the new Chairman: if it is a general in times of war that the GA 
feels we need, then definitively the new Chairman has to have a different 
profile and different philosophy.

>Question: If there was no intention in the Bylaws for the BoD to refer
>proposals to DNSO, why was the DNSO created?

I agree on this. This was the sense of another message of mine.
Let's be clear: if there will be a strong common position to present to NC 
and/or ICANN BoD by the GA, I will be glad to vehicle it.
But if the will of the majority is different, as for one of the motions in 
Marina del Rey, I will forward it exactly how I forward the ones that I 
agree upon.

Regards
Roberto


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