[NCUC-DISCUSS] Pilot Program

[Michael Oghia]

+1 Bill, great points and a good action plan.

Best,
-Michael


On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:52 AM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Apr 26, 2016, at 07:19, James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net> wrote:
>
> Fully agree with Sana, and Kathy.
> This is a pilot program and no-one is suggesting ICANN or WBC develop
> policy for us, the members will always be the gatekeeper, lets try the
> pilot and see if it works, if it doesn’t fine then at least we have tried
> and evaluated, killing this before its started I don’t think is a wise use
> of our time.
>
> -James
>
>
> +1 James, rejecting it out of hand ex ante doesn’t make sense to me
> either.  Remember that similar arguments were raised about accepting a
> little admin support, and it’s turned out the part time help we’ve received
> there has been valuable and hasn’t compromised our independence or
> integrity. The conversations on this pilot that I was party to when
> chairing revealed no dark agendas to control or co-opt us, but rather a
> desire to respond to the community’s cries for help due to widespread
> burnout and bandwidth issues.  So personally I’d give it a shot—insist on
> having a person we’re comfortable, establish clear boundaries for what we
> do and don’t want from them, work with the person, assess the experience
> carefully, and if it turns out to be more headache than helpful, terminate
> it then based on actual experience.
>
> Best
>
> Bill
>
>
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