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On 2/15/2013 11:33 PM, David Cake wrote:<br>
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<div>Very pleased to see that NCSGs endorsed candidate, Avri
Doria, in on the team. Congratulations Avri, very pleased to
have your depth of wisdom about process and your strong voice
for transparency and accountability on the team. Interesting
that after all the debate about GNSO endorsement, only 2 of the
4 GNSO endorsed candidates got picked. </div>
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<div>Somewhat boggled to see that Stephen Conroy, who is the
Australian Communications Minister, is on the team personally.
He is a very senior minister in a fairly embattled government,
during an election year. He has never shown any direct
involvement in ICANN before - he turned up when ICANN was in
Sydney, but only for the necessary few hours for his speech, and
didn't discuss much ICANN specific. I'd be very surprised if he
puts the appropriate level of effort in, actually it would be
very problematic domestically if he did (for example, it
certainly isn't enough of a priority for him to justify skipping
parliamentary sitting weeks to attend ICANN meetings, given he
is leader of the government in the Senate). I imagine he will
drop out quickly, and probably try to have an underling sit in
for him (I'd guess one of the Aus GAC reps) even though that
isn't valid according to the RT rules. I look forward to hearing
how this pans out. I should note that relationships between
Electronic Frontiers Australia and Stephen Conroy are generally
a long way from good - he once accused us in Parliament of an
orchestrated campaign to mislead the nation, for example, and we
successfully led the campaign against his (radically
unaccountable and non-transparent) policy to filter Australian
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<div>Cheers</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>David</div>
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