[NCSG-Discuss] ATRT2 announced

[Carl Smith]

+1

Lou

On 2/15/2013 11:33 PM, David Cake wrote:
> http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-15feb13-en.htm
>
> 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.
>
> 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 
> internet access.
>
> Cheers
>
> David
>

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