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

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

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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