Re: [atlarge-discuss] Panel Meetings

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

Jefsey,

You write:  << May be because the target is _not_ to copy ICANN.>>  Perhaps 
then you can copy almost every other organization in the world that holds 
regular meetings at regularly scheduled intervals.  Just because ICANN follows a 
successful model employed by thousands of other organizations does not 
necessarily make it wrong.  

Re:  <<And because the preceeding Panel wanted to rule - as ICANN does - 
instead of serving.>>  There is nothing wrong with ruling if you are a body 
constituted for that purpose and are duly elected.  Jefsey, you want to turn the 
Panel into a bunch of wimps that need to ask the membership for permission for 
each and every activity.  If a committee needs to be formed, you want to stop 
and hold another 6-week long election.  If the committee produces a report, you 
want a six-week long vote of the membership to ratify that report.  This is 
bullshit.
 
Re:  <<Members have celarly indicated they did not want a centralized 
structoire and a do-iy-all panel.>>  Your interpretation is skewed, and your ballot 
questions were poorly written.  Frankly, I don't think that either you or the 
members that voted have a clear idea of what they want.  

The largest positive response to your structural questions were an 
endorsement of the notion of an alliance of @large organizations and support for 
national members associations.  An alliance is an association of groups formed to 
advance a particular interest or cause.  This is akin to the structure used by 
the world wide alliance of TLD managers (http://www.wwtld.org) whose 
organization has a strong centralized AdCom with a Secretariat.  The AdCom holds regular 
teleconferences and members pay a significant amount of dues to support the 
organization.

Re:  <<Apart from that the Panel should make sure that the next Panel is 
elected and that major positions statements and structural changes are voted by 
the Members>>.  If the members have to vote on every statement, then you will 
never succeed in having a statement acknowledged by its intended recipient 
because you will always miss the deadline for comment.  Most comment periods are 10 
days to 3 weeks.  You could never prepare a statement in that time and also 
have it voted upon by the entirety of the membership.  Sorry, but this will 
never work.
 


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