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<p>All,</p>
<p>I think the nuances of the concerns are being missed. There is
something much, much more than the mere transition of the US
Government out of its current role. As Avri pointed out earlier
today: "This was linked to improvements in ICANN accountability.
We fought for that and got it. Upfront we agreed to this process
be divided into two parts."</p>
<p>I think everyone agrees with the transition -- Bret certainly
said he did at the hearing. But it is those improvements of ICANN
Accountability that people are questioning. Are they fair? Are
they balanced? Are they understood by all who will be impacted by
them?</p>
<p>I have to tell you I am concerned because there seem to be a lot
of "gotchas" -- meaning every time I hear someone testify about
the details of the Accountability & Transition plan, someone
else (involved with the process) says that he/she/it did not
understand it that way. There was certainly a lot of last minute
changes and maneuvering. There is not, frankly, a lot of
knowledge or understanding about the details of how this
restructuring and reorganization is going to work. <br>
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<p>Rather than name-calling, or picture discussion, let's talk about
the details (the devil's always there, right). Can a consensus
policy really be appealed to an Independent Review Process
proceeding by one of the multiple stakeholders involved? Isn't
that going to give those stakeholders with the most time and
resources a third, fourth and fifth bite at the policies we are
negotiating? Isn't that going to undermine our months and years of
work in the policy development process and working groups? That's
one question that no one has been able to answer for me.</p>
Let's talk details - if you help us understand, we'll appreciate it.
But this is much more than a transition from USG oversight... <br>
<p>Kathy<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/26/2016 12:26 PM, Mueller, Milton
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David Post [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:david.g.post@gmail.com">mailto:david.g.post@gmail.com</a>]
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But that's not the goal, in my eyes. The goal is to create
an institution that can manage these resources in a
reasonable way, for the next [many] years.<span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">MM: As Avri
noted, the goal of the stewardship transition was
to…transition, i.e. get the US govt out of its current
role. I am flabbergasted by the fact that you do not see
the US oversight role as a broken part of the institution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">MM: As
someone who has written about early post-revolutionary
America, I wonder how you would respond to my argument “</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#444444;background:white">all
these new democratic government models are new and
untested. We don’t really know how well they will work.
Why doesn’t the United States retain its status as a
British colony under the King for a few years, and let him
decide if the experiment has worked?”</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal">All I'm suggesting is that it would
hardly seem unreasonable, to me, if the USG took the
position that while it is signing off on the transition, it
is doing so subject to a kind of probationary period that
will enable us all to understand better whether and how it
actually works. Perhaps other countries will view that as a
terribly untrustworthy move, perhaps they won't - I do think
it helps that it is, fundamentally, quite a reasonable
position to take.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">MM: So you
assume that the USG is NOT part of the machine, it is a
deus ex machina that we can invoke at any time to insert
an entirely rational, undistorted corrective action on
whatever happens?
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