Re: [members-meeting] Re: [icann-eu] Second draft for comments on Study Committee

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@vitaminic.net>]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 17:29:55 +0100, you wrote:

>Could you please elaborate a bit on the nature of such a consultroy
>vote?

In the end, the Study will produce a document with suggestions to the Board.
I think that there should then be an online vote in which every member says
"Yes, I agree" or "No, I don't agree". Simple, cheap and clear :-)
The result from this vote should *not* limit in any way the decisions of the
Board, but could be taken as a measure of consensus among the members, and
on our side could help us in making it very difficult to take any
deliberation which is provenly impopular among the Membership.

>Also, since this study is intended to be a consensus-building
>process, wouldn't that imply that there should be a formal approval
>from the Supproting Organizations, too?

The above vote would not constitute a "formal approval", but just a
statement of opinion. In this sense, I don't have any problem in having
similar votes expressed by the SOs.

>should produce a consensus.  A situation you describe can't
>seriously be termed "consensus", and I'm quite certain that ICANN
>staff doesn't want to get the kind of publicity a one-sided
>consensus on this issue would produce.

It seems to me that you cannot assume that all the current Board members act
in good faith; some of them seem to be quite biased towards shifting power
from the community and the membership to the industry and the SOs. I don't
think that, in such a situation, they would care much about "publicity", if
it doesn't get to the point where it endangers the power they get from DoC
and registries (which is also something we should try to exploit).

[elections of 4 at large directors in 2001]
>> What do you think about this?
>
>Frankly, I don't think that this is even remotely realistic.

I don't mind whether this is realistic, because it is reasonable. After all,
it is something that was expected and planned up to a few weeks ago - and I
don't know how it is in other countries, but most Italian online press is
now referring to the deferral of 2001 elections as an illegitimate robbery
by the current Board. So we should not accept it passively.

Moreover, if you aim too low, you won't get nothing. Aim a little higher and
maybe you'll take something home. Don't aim so high to let them think that
there's no reasonable compromise with you, though. But don't accept defeat
without fighting.
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Vittorio Bertola     <vb@vitaminic.net>    Ph. +39 011 23381220
Vitaminic [The Music Evolution] - Vice President for Technology