great opening statement by Brett

[Wisdom Donkor]

+1
James I agree with you

On Wednesday, May 25, 2016, James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net> wrote:
> I agree delay is not going to help anyone, ‘testing’ the plan will bring
us nowhere as the very powers that people have concerns over and wish to
test will likely not be used in any reasonable testing period. We will
likely not have to spill the board, file community IRPs against ICANN or
take recourse to the California courts, and to insinuate otherwise is
playing to the people who like to hear the media spin reels around the
transition.
>
> Our proposal is sound, is based in strong governance and law, and is
ready to be executed. We either believe in the ability of the community to
build design and execute or we don’t.
>
> I do.
>
> -James
>
>
>
>
> On 25/05/2016, 06:55, "NCSG-Discuss on behalf of Dorothy K. Gordon" <
NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU on behalf of director-general at AITI-KACE.COM.GH>
wrote:
>
>>There will always be issues that can be used to avoid the transition.
Delay is really not going to help in this case.  I believe delay will kill
this, and we will look back with regret if it does not go forward now.
>>best regards
>>DG
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Ron Wickersham" <rjw at ITSMYINTERNET.ORG>
>>To: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>>Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 5:11:00 AM
>>Subject: Re: great opening statement by Brett
>>
>>i'm not convinced that going slow is any kind of attempt to kill the
>>transistion.   i share the concerns Ed and Kathy have enumerated, and
>>am extremely uncomfortable with the important items that were shuffled
>>off into workstream 2 just to get these contentious and very important
>>issues off the table.   dividing the work up is ok, but get the whole
>>work stream parts 1 and parts 2 and if need be parts 3 and 4 resolved
>>before the actual transition.
>>
>>as both a NCUC and NCSG member as well as a USA citizen, i don't see
>>how my representatives can approve a half-finished plan where the
>>stakeholders have not resolved important issues -- the only thing
>>the stakeholders have addressed is how to divide the work into two
>>streams and agreed on the first part only.
>>
>>not every one who shares these same concerns is a USA citizen, these
>>concerns are not US centric at all.   and with the change in leadership
>>of ICANN in the middle of the process affects the continuity of the
>>deliberations and adds additional uncertinty.
>>
>>i'm on the side of proceeding more slowly.   a finished good plan that
>>is agreed (really a compromise) between all stakeholders will stand on
>>its own merit and will succeed.
>>
>>by overloading with too many separate, sometimes overlapping, groups
>>makes it impossible for Non-commercial volunteers to participate in
>>all the important steps.   still we can recognize if the final plan
>>is insufficient to address our valid interests, so we have to see the
>>end product to adequately judge our position.
>>
>>-ron
>

-- 
*WISDOM DONKOR (S/N Eng.)*
E-government and Open Government Data Platforms Specialist
National Information Technology Agency (NITA)/
Ghana Open Data Initiative Project.
ICANN Fellow / Member, UN IGF MAG Member, ISOC Member,
Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) Member, Diplo Foundation Member,
OGP Open Data WG Member, GODAN Memember, ITAG Member
Email: wisdom_dk at hotmail.com
wisdom.donkor at data.gov.gh
wisdom.dk at gmail.com
Skype: wisdom_dk
facebook: facebook at wisdom_dk
Website: www.nita.gov.gh / www.data.gov.gh
www.isoc.gh / www.itag.org.gh
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ncsg.is/pipermail/ncsg-discuss/attachments/20160525/9c012cb1/attachment.htm>