Karl,
I don't know if your mind is a scary thing, but as far as I'm concerned this
has never been an issue. I've never met anyone until now who thought that
the ICANN Board couldn't do anything they damn well pleased with SO
recommendations - implement them, throw them out, use them as toilet paper.
It has been the understanding of many of us who are putting together the
DNSO structure that the role of the DNSO is advisory only. There have been
many conversations which go: "It doesn't really matter that much, there's no
real power here, we're not making policy, we're making recommendations."
I don't know where you got this idea of the strong SO/weak board, but it's
complete news to me.
Antony
Joe Sims wrote to Karl Auerbach
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>your mind is a scary thing. there has never been anything stopping you or
>any proto-group you form from making suggestions to anyone, including the
>ICANN Board, anytime you want to. Nor has there ever, except apparently in
>your mind, been any struggle over strong vs weak Boards. The SOs have
>always been, at least in the eyes of those who proposed them in the first
>place, vehicles for the debate over and development of policy
>recommendations; they remain that today. I understand (I guess) that you
>have a little different way to look at these things, and more power to you,
>but you may understand why that idiosyncratic approach is not attractive
>or persuasive to others. By the way, the fact that no one else that I know
>of has read the language the way you do is some evidence that it is not the
>language that is ambiguous.
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