[ga] Re: [ALSC-Forum] Update on Process

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

I do not want anyone to think for a minute that my criticism of our BS extends
to cavebear.

Yes I sometimes am critical of him because I want him to act outrageously.
But he maintains a high ground that we should all aspire to.

Just as it is with Danny, I sometimes take my shoe off and pound it on the
table, but I fully support both of these fine gentlemen.  We all owe them.

e

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Eric Dierker wrote:
>
> > It would appear that the ALSC has devolved into a CEO/Staff function.
>
> > So I ask Karl whether this is appropriate corporate conduct?
>
> The ALSC report's contents were *not* adopted in Los Angeles last month.
> We merely accepted the document - with "accepted" being merely an
> acknowldegement of receipt of the document, not an endorsement of its
> contents.
>
> Given the mess of the procedures of the last election, it seems sensible
> to allow ICANN's staff to start figuring out how such an election will be
> held.  (Most of the debate on the ALSC report has not been on the election
> process but rather on other items.)
>
> This preparatory activity of the staff is limited - they must be "mindful"
> of the report's contents.  This means that they must act with awareness of
> the fact that the at-large as deployed may be very much different than
> what is in the ALSC report.
>
> ICANN's staff is going to have to do a balancing act between preparation
> and the fact that if they go too far some of their work may have to be
> undone.  There will almost certainly be some wasted effort and wasted
> effort - the trick will be to minimize that.
>
> I am fearful that there could develop a situation in which ICANN's staff
> implements their own view of an at-large and ends up creating a situation
> that I called "creeping fait accompli" - that of an increasing feeling
> that ICANN can not adopt any other approach because of the waste of money
> that would be involved by discarding what staff had done.
>
>                 --karl--

--
This message was passed to you via the ga@dnso.org list.
Send mail to majordomo@dnso.org to unsubscribe
("unsubscribe ga" in the body of the message).
Archives at http://www.dnso.org/archives.html