24 August Comment Deadline: Bylaw Amendments Related to Restructuring of the GNSO

[Norbert Klein]

Avri Doria wrote:
> On 18 Aug 2009, at 10:24, Adam Peake wrote:
>
>> ust think that had the offer been made earlier it would have been
>> more difficult for the manipulation you're concerned about to happen.
>> There might have been a real opportunity for those interested to do
>> some outreach, not handing out cash to anyone who asked, but a
>> "community" effort. Now it will be staff led.
It is suggested by staff that it should be staff led - but that is wrong
- that is not how ICANN is described, and how ICANN is projecting itself.
>
>
> I do not see any reason to allow it to be 'staff lead.'  at least not
> without getting in their face every time they do something that
> deviates from bottom-up processes.  This should be one of the things
> that the NCSG works  on once it is formed - to remove the control from
> staff of process that should be bottom-up.  ICANN must be made to live
> up to its hype. And new constituencies must spring from genuine
> communities - not Policy Staff created assemblages.
>
> a.
Thanks Avri - I fully agree. This is an old problem, but it became more
of a problem over time. I remember that also GNSO had problems sometimes
when we wanted to have some staff assistance - and we were told that
they may have different priorities.


Norbert

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