Re: [ICANN-EU] A specific question for Lutz D

["Andreas Fügner" <Andreas.Fuegner@lizenz.com>]

Dear Lutz:


>Difficult. I had a longer talk with Michael Schneider last week and he told
>me a lot of the DNSO activities concerning the ICANN director board. If I
>take this serious, ICANN is lobby driven and can not be influenced by
single
>people.

Of course it can be. If one knows how to play the game.

>Following his words ICANN decisions are made in the background
>months before the official announcment.

That is - unfortunately - a regular problem with bodies like ICANN.
Most decisions are made in what is called the "kitchen cabinet".
BTW, our German politicians are doing the same. Remember the
voting on tax reform?

>He told me some stories about
>existing (in)active members: A few very active members produce a huge
amount
>of senseless documents hard to ignore. OTOH if a member is to inactive it
>will be ignored in a profund way. So he concluded that @large directors
will
>be either not able to do the work necessary (will consume about six hours
>daily without a supporting office) or give up in a few months due to the
>missing links to the lobbying background.


Or start playing the game and evenzually change it.
And this only works from the inside.

Andreas Fuegner