Fwd: [council] GNSO letter to the ICANN Board regarding Public Participation

[Norbert Klein]

On Wednesday, 4 February 2009 22:53:04 Milton L Mueller wrote:


I agree, this is a very important, fundamental point:

if the functions and roles of board and staff are not clearly seen as what
they are - very separate levels of responsibility - it is easy that the
control of certain processes gets located at the wrong level.

And the fact that the GNSO Council took the fact that there was limited
communication between the ICANN public at the Cairo meeting and the Board as
an occasion to write to the Board and appeal for rectification, shows also
the opinion that it is important to uphold the role of the Board against all
dangers of being weakened.

I am more interested what the Board hears and decides, than what is reported
to be "the opinion of some [unnamed] people at ICANN."


Norbert Klein

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> I would support Avri's statement for the most part. My only quibble would
> be to be careful about this: " ICANN staff, under direction of the
> Chairman, allowed for questions to be posted after the Meeting and
> subsequently answered by appropriate staff."
>
> While obviously staff should answer questions directed to them, i would not
> want to encourage ICANN to treat this kind of staff mediation as a
> _substitute_ for direct interaction with the Board at Public Forums
>
> Milton Mueller





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