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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">I think this is a very
good question. IN theory, ICANN is us. It seems to me (my
opinion only, based on observation of behaviour and concerns
particularly expressed on lists during the IANA transition discussions)
that there appears to be us, and a bureaucracy/power structure
centred in the Board, but which also includes staff, at least
senior staff. Possibly inevitable once the supporting
structure reaches a certain size, but something to
contemplate, as it affects ownership of the community in
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Stephanie Perrin<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-06-07 23:49, Shane Kerr wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Fellow NCSG members,
One thing that I had previously missed caught my eye just now:
At 2016-06-07 14:07:25 +0200
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<pre wrap="">it isn't. It is possibly one of community culture, but if we accept
that, we can't just push this back to ICANN to somehow deal with. I
don't want a return to the Victorian moral panic of the 1880s, I don't
want ICANN inhibiting anyone's free speech to satisfy a few special
interests.
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<pre wrap="">Helsinki. If anything, I feel like WE are more at fault here than ICANN
as an organisation is. WE are not respecting the processes already in
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<pre wrap="">ICANN has been very responsive to the concerns raised by the community,
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All of these statements share a similar tone: ICANN is something that
we interact with, but we are not a part of ICANN.
Perhaps I am confused, because I come from the IETF and RIR
communities, which allow anyone to join and participate. While there is
a distinction between the ARIN community and the ARIN not-for-profit
company (for example) or the IETF and the IAB (as another example), for
the most part direction comes from the wider, open community.
You know, in a kind of bottom-up, open, inclusive way.
So... if this is not how ICANN works, then I feel like the ICANN
experiment has gone off the rails and is in serious danger of failing
completely. If "ICANN" is something different from, well, us, then what
is it?
Are we not ICANN?
Cheers,
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Shane
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