[PC-NCSG] Fwd: Comments Requested: Draft 2012-2015 Strategic Plan

[Rafik Dammak]

Hi Bill,

maybe if he give some background that will be helpful,

Best,

Rafik

2011/11/7 William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>

> Anyone care about this either way?
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> *From: *William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>
> *Date: *November 7, 2011 10:53:38 AM GMT+01:00
> *To: *Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org>
> *Cc: *Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org>
> *Subject: **Re: Comments Requested: Draft 2012-2015 Strategic Plan*
>
> HI Evan
>
> Thanks for the note.  A priori, since this doesn't particularly involve
> us, I'd guess that in the universe of things that concern NC enough to
> spend capital on. this is a rather distant star.  But I can pass it on to
> our policy committee and see if there's a different view?
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
> On Nov 7, 2011, at 2:24 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
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>
> Hey there.
>
> I don't know if you or the NCSG may be interested, but I've forwarded a
> position I'm asking ALAC to consider, copied from something I sent to the
> At-Large mailing list. I'm very interested to know your POVs on this.
> Feedback so far has been positive.
>
> - Evan
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org>
> Date: 5 November 2011 11:02
> Subject: Re: Comments Requested: Draft 2012-2015 Strategic Plan
> To: ALAC Working List <alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>
>
> In response to the call for comments on the ICANN Strategic Plan, I wish
> to advance the following position as ALAC advice:
>
>> *Periodically, ICANN indulges itself in a re-evaluation of its Strategic
>> Plan. There are presentations from senior staff, workshops, and a
>> significant chunk of At-Large policy-making time allocated to this
>> endeavour.*
>>
>> *We submit that that this exercise is a massive waste of time and
>> energy, not just on the part of At-Large but of all of ICANN. In fact, at
>> this critical time (US Government contracts up for renewal, changes at both
>> CEO and Board Chair, and increasing pressure from governments to scrap the
>> whole multi-stakeholder experiment), such an energy consuming exercise in
>> "navel-gazing" simply calls public attention to the extent of which ICANN
>> is out of touch with the community it is supposed to serve. We submit that
>> the abandonment of this charade of creating laminated "motherhood
>> statements" and diversion of energies to matters more pressing is urgently
>> called upon.*
>>
>> *ICANN's role is well defined and its scope should be fairly focused. It
>> strategic plan should need fine tuning at best -- and certainly not an
>> overhaul of the kind being requested on a frequent and ongoing basis. That
>> any broad changes are contemplated indicates either mission creep or
>> capture -- or both. ICANN has never lived up to its aspirational
>> "strategic" plans of the past, allowing staff rather than the community to
>> really determine the priorities regardless of what the words say.
>> Compounding the farce is the charging of this same staff with evaluating
>> its own success. As a result, the community spends more time in endless
>> reviews of the plan than in actually holding ICANN accountable for its
>> execution.*
>>
>> *We request that ICANN focus its resources -- and those of its
>> volunteers -- on genuinely implementing the strategies it has already
>> defined before repeatedly coming back to the community to engage in further
>> rounds of self-absorbed distraction.*
>>
>
> I have added this statement to the comment section of the appropriate
> At-Large wiki page<https://community.icann.org/display/alacpolicydev/At-Large+Workspace+for+the+ICANN+Strategic+Plan+2012-2015>.
> I wish to submit it for approval as a position of the At-Large Advisory
> Committee. Failing that, I would like to solicit support from community
> members in the submission of a minority position. I am certainly open to
> modification of the message to make it more broadly acceptable but I hope
> that the main point intended by the statement is reasonably unambiguous.
>
> Note: I am doing this as an individual ALAC member, not as representing
> any existing position of my region or the ALAC Executive Committee to which
> I belong. A version of this statement has already been made to the NARALO
> mailing list, and during an ALAC teleconference briefing on the strategic
> plan.
>
> Thank you for your consideration.
>
> - Evan
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