Fwd: Confirming Meeting with the Board - Tuesday 13 March - 3:30pm

[Andrew A. Adams]

If the Board regard some issues as too sensitive for open discussions, they
should say so and provide all stakeholders with a private sphere in which to
have such discussions;
If the Board regard some issues as too sensitive for discussions with anyone
outside the Board, or with anyone except a specific set of groups outside the
Board, they should at least provide lists of those items and lists of those
with whom the discussions are taking place.

ICANN is not a national security agency thriving on secrecy, it is supposed
to be an open multi-stakeholder social enterprise. If we feel strongly about
an issue that's not getting discussion then we should pursue the reasons for
the lack of discussion during the time we have allocated to discussion.
Stonewalling becomes obvious when you have that backup goal in mind.


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Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/