[At-Large] Board appoint Wolfgang Kleinwächter as the 2010 NomCom Chair

[Karl Auerbach]

On 09/04/2009 12:52 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> I find recent actions of the BGC, such as this selection and the
> repudiation of the Westlake report for the ALAC review, that still give
> me some hope for ICANN's future; they speak well of the growing respect
> of At-Large.

I don't think the word "repudiate" accurately reflects how our (the ALAC 
review working group) report addressed the Westlake report.

Rather, we accepted much of it, we found a few places where we gave 
different weight to the competing concerns, and, in the case of the 
board seat issue, we found the Westlake argument to have weight, along 
with some misunderstanding of a foundation matter, but that, ultimately, 
their reports argument was not, at least not to us, compelling.

One may as well say that the board repudiated our report when it dropped 
the number of directors from the public to one from our report's two. 
But that, too, would be to use too strong of a word.

The Westlake people had a hard job; they did a pretty good job of it 
given the constraints.

		--karl--