[ga] GA Chair and Co-Chair - Re: NC representatives appear non-effective - Re: [ga] DNSO GA RESTRUCTURING

[Derek Conant <dconant@dnsga.org>]

I would like to believe that Mr. Younger is sitting back clearing his head
while monitoring the GA process.  I met him and I think he is a good guy
with good intentions and he wants the GA to succeed.  I cannot spend all
of my time doing this or I would go crazy (you can see the crazy ones out
there) and be in the poor house.  Remember that most people participating
in this process are doing it for free and with money their own money.
Time is money.

I disagree that the GA Chair can handle all of this and you may have
missed my point regarding the necessity of the 7 other representative or
GA Directors.  This discussion is not about 7 people telling us what we
need to talk about and to
do Mr. Younger's job.

The GA directorships will give the GA a solid showing and they may provide
the necessary motivation for interested parties to more effectively
coordinate.  Coordination is what this GA is lacking, not leadership.  I
believe there is only so much the Chair can do here for free and with what
little coordination the Chair has to work with.

The Chair and Co-Chair in this case cannot just snap their fingers and
demand order and productivity.  Therefore, the GA directorship provides a
stable platform to maintain the momentum of the GA and its ability to
produce valid positions from the constructive information they are charged
to review from GA members.  This saves the GA from people who seem to drop
out because they need a break and maintains order and direction.  And,
this saves the GA from distraction.

If we sit around chewing on Mr. Younger's ass were not going to get
anything accomplished.  A GA directorship will cause more order and
productivity here than anything else the GA has produced thus far.

We need to move forward.  Instead of canning Mr. Younger right now, I
suggest that we move forward by nominating 7 GA Directors to take the helm
together with the GA Chair and Co-Chair.  Let the GA Directors decide if
the GA Chair and/or Co-Chair need to step down through some GA motion to
the NC.  I suggest again that this is not for us individuals to decide
because we are not organized, qualified nor anointed with such powers.  We
should leave those GA position decisions to a stable GA Directorship is
what I'm saying here.

I am trying to be constructive rather than destructive here.  I am trying
to move this thing forward.

Derek Conant
DNSGA President and Chairman

"William X. Walsh" wrote:

> Hello Derek,
>
> The problem is that Danny hasn't even made more than a token attempt
> to guide discussion on this list.
>
> His post to the ga-org list showed promise that maybe he was actually
> starting to understand how to do his job, but that hope quickly faded,
> it seemed he pulled a hit and run.
>
> We do not need 7 people to tell us what we need to talk about and to
> do Danny's job for him.
>
> What we need is for Danny to either step up to the plate and act like
> a chair and to be an instrument of consensus, or to ask the Names
> Council to accept his resignation and make way for the GA to select
> someone who can fill that role.  Our chair should be guiding
> discussion, prioritizing subjects of discussion and debate, and
> helping us by pulling out the points where we agree and using them to
> help bring us about to points of consensus on the subject.
>
> Jonathan Weinberg's leadership in NC Workgroup C on gTLDs is an
> excellent example of how to do that, in what was probably the most
> hotly contested issue in the DNSO to date.
>
> We need a chair who will lead us, not come in every few days and
> preach more about dismantlement, and chastise people for not
> accomplish anything when the real cause is his failure to be a
> presence on this list that coordinates and works with us.
>
> And it doesn't take a lot of time to do that.  Again I hold Jonathan
> up as an example of that.
>
> The co-chair should be stepping in and assisting him in doing that,
> and helping him to be a stabilizing presence here and in helping bring
> about consensus on the issues that need to be addressed (and that
> means recognizing when his own agenda is not going to be adopted and
> be willing to set it aside).
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William X Walsh
> mailto:william@userfriendly.com
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