[NA-Discuss] Issues for Paris

[Robert Guerra]

Commenting on the draft ALAC review, i think would be strategic.



On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Dominik Filipp <dominik.filipp at dsoft.sk> wrote:
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> [mailto:na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of
> Jacqueline A. Morris
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 6:03 AM
> To: Evan Leibovitch
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> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Issues for Paris
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>> Jacqueline Morris wrote:
>>
>> yes, the GAC is very powerful without any
>> voting Board seat. And one of the reasons
>> that I consistently ask WHY it is necessary
>> to have a voting seat to have influence.
>> I think that there's a concept that the vote
>> means something in and of itself - honestly,
>> if we have 40% of the Board seats , we can
>> still lose EVERY vote if we are not respected,
>> and have no influence! Whereas as you see with
>> the GAC, you don't need to vote if you can
>> persuade the people who have votes to vote your way.
>
> Jacqueline, do you mean this seriously or is this just a joke? The GAC
> as an official governmental body and as such IMHO it has by its nature
> an exclusively unique status within ICANN. If At-Large had 40% of the
> Board seats and still lost every vote then it would be solely the
> problem of At-Large from which it could still recover after making some
> necessary internal changes. Without any seat At-Large can be doing its
> best and there is no guarantee to achieve anything, that is a
> second-class status.
>
> And what about to cancel all biased seats so that all the bodies are
> given the same chance to persuade an independent group of people with
> voting right. And what are the biased seats? The seats that, for
> instance, voted for the Verisign agreement, or for the degradation of
> the At-Large status to a second-class advisory body.
>
> A bit shocking for me, Jacqueline
>
> Dominik
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