[At-Large] Heidi in the ICANN Executive team
Avri Doria
avri at acm.org
Mon Sep 17 01:16:16 UTC 2012
On 16 Sep 2012, at 16:26, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Is there anything specific you have in mind when referring to senior staff
> "governing the activities" of At-Large?
Hi,
No nothing specific.
And as I said, I am sure that everything will be alright, and that we are entering a new age of cooperative multistakeholder ICANN nirvana.
I will repeat, I am very happy for Heidi, who is among the many staff members I trust, respect, and like a bunch.
My experience with the senior management staff of ICANN has taught me to be cautious.
Building on the two possible vision-types of ICANN:
A. a multistakeholder volunteer organization with a professional staff that assists the volunteers with all policy creation and then operationalizes and enforces those policies
B. a 100 Million USD non-profit US corporation run like a for profit business where the staff has among its duties, managing large groups of often obstreperous volunteers.
When senior management staff has taken a form of View B, often the better attention has been distracting, to put it mildly.
I personally have no idea yet whether the new ICANN leadership's view ICANN is closer to pole A or B.
Hence I look at everything from both sides now.
avri
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