Hi Jim -- I respectfully disagree.
I am certain that there are very competent ICANN BoD Candidates that
will step up to the plate if we can have an open nominating process
just using open Internet mailing lists to run the process and select a
new set of "interim" members.
And, this will be even easier if the bylaws are shnaged to call for
open meetings, and the new members are selecting knowing what is
expected.
Cheers...\Stef
>From your message Sun, 7 Feb 1999 20:40:27 +0000 (GMT):
}
}On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Gordon Cook wrote:
}
}> Thanks to Dianne for putting this up.
}> The current ICANN with its closed board "ain't gonna" make it. Esther, in
}> my opinion, needs to quit fund raising and plan a SERIOUS round of
}> reconstruction for this currently still born organization at Apricot. The
}> resignation of the current board and selection of a new one and the
}> revision of the bylaws need to be the first order of business.
}
}I have to disagree. If the current board is told that they should
}simply replace themselves and resign, what makes you think that their
}replacements would be any better?
}
}Look at things from the point of view of candidate replacement board
}members. Anyone signing up will know, if they have a modicum of sense,
}that they are being asked to fill seats judged by their previous
}occupants to be uncomfortably hot. I think that it was difficult
}enough to recruit the current board. This suggests that the replacement
}board would be markedly worse than the current board.
}
}The only way forward for ICANN is for the current board to get their
}act together. If they can't, ICANN should be allowed to go the way of
}all lost causes, and we should put our energies into figuring out some
}other way of handling its responsibilities.
}
}I am not advocating abandoning ICANN. I do think that some people
}should be putting some energy into working quietly on alternative
}approaches. Most of us should be trying to make ICANN work, for
}example by urging them to open up their proceedings and castigating
}them for hiring PR agencies instead.
}
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