Re: [atlarge-discuss] My choices for a leadership team

[Izumi AIZU <izumi@anr.org>]

I agree most of what you wrote, but I do not understand a single point:

Why we should care about US Congress? Is there any venue for non-US
citizens to be heard there directly? Is there any merit over demerit?

In fact, when in Cairo CDT and other made proposal to change
in-direct to direct election of AtLarge, I was quite uncomfortable
to hear the "US Domestic" political languages and I told some of
the people of that team about that. I heard that they almost
pushed that item to the board "if you do not accept this, then
we will go to appeal in the Congress", something like that.
Whose congress? was my question. If they argue about the
management of .us, then that is fine. But if  we talk about the
global resource, at least US congress is not the only nor central place to
mention... isn't it. So I can accept some of the new panel members
are Americans, of course, and some might try to lobby US congress,
that may be OK, but please do not make it as the central agenda.
Think globally, and we may also ACT globally, too, whatever that can be.

And, I personally do not like this struggle to call it as "a war".
If this is a "war" then I will not participate. War sounds like we have
enemies and allies. We have to "kill" the enemies then.

In your cultural context, maybe that is all right and make perfect sense.
But there can be other environment where war is more serious matter
of life and death directly, while finding out the right solution as to
how and who to manage the domain name system and other critical
resource of the Internet is important, but not in the same line.

Danny, sorry I don't mean to make an artificial argument with you
for the sake of argument, but I thinks we should look at our
issues in a broader and global context.

best,

izumi



At 20:41 02/07/16 -0400, DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:
>Izumi, you wrote:  << dealing with US Congress is not the business of the new
>organization, at least directly, in my opinion. >>
>
>I fail to understand your reticence to fight for the At-Large in all
>pertinent venues.  We are clearly in a war with many battlefields and it is
>our collective job to defend the rights of our community no matter where that
>battle may take us.  If you wish to fight only within the Halls of ICANN that
>is your privilege, but decisions are being made in other arenas which will
>impact the ICANN organization and which will affect the general user
>community.
>
>I respect the effort made by Jamie Love and a host of NGOs to communicate
>their concerns to the Department of Commerce (that must craft a new
>Memorandum of Understanding with ICANN in the immediate future) -- and it is
>only by the exercise of such "influence" that representation for the At-Large
>can possibly be secured in a future form of ICANN.
>
>You and your peers have already lost the battle for representation within
>ICANN's tent.  Please don't stifle the efforts of others that might yet
>succeed where you have failed.  The power of the US Congress might be the
>last bastion of hope for any chance at ever seeing an At-Large director once
>again on the Board.  Don't discount that option prematurely to your detriment.
>
>The "business" of the new organization continues to be the effort to seat
>user representatives on the Board, whether that means lobbying members of the
>Nominating Committee or using Congressional leaders to fight for "tasks" in
>the MoU which mandate such representation.  I don't intend to lie down and
>tamely accept the edicts of this incumbent Board as sacrosanct.  The fight
>will continue, and I hope that the leadership of this group is prepared for a
>tumultuous fight.  The At-Large has been reduced from a promised nine to
>zero... I don't intend to accept that situation, and I would hope that you
>would be prepared to fight for what is right and to keep on fighting until we
>are accorded our due.



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