Re: [alac] ALAC Statements to the Board - lessons learned

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Annette Muehlberg ha scritto:
> I checked the real-time captioning. Vittorio's critique on how the board 
> handles ALACs inputs, e.g. our statement/proposals on transparency, 
> ended with the words:
>
> “I HOPE THAT WE DON’T HAVE TO GO TO THE OMBUDSMAN TO GET INFORMATION 
> ABOUT HOW THE BOARD IS CONSIDERING WHAT WE SAY.”
>
> Vint Cerf gave a very enlightening answer: “...AS I HAVE LISTENED TO 
> MANY OF THE EXCHANGES THIS WEEK, I HAVE CONCLUDED THAT WHAT HAPPENS IS 
> THAT WE SOMETIMES DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT A PARTY WHO HAS SAID SOMETHING 
> IS ALSO LOOKING SPECIFICALLY FOR A REPLY…
> THIS IS NOT TO EXCUSE ANYTHING, BUT WHEN WE — IF WHEN YOU ARE 
> COMMUNICATING SOMETHING SPECIFICALLY TO THE BOARD AND AN EXPLICIT 
> RESPONSE IS EXPECTED, PROBABLY IT WOULDN’T HURT TO SAY THAT, JUST TO 
> UNDERSCORE THE POINT.”
>
> Wow! 
>
>  From now on we will put a reminder on all our statements: ANSWER EXPECTED!

I didn't want to add that when one (being Chair of an Advisory 
Committee) sends email to "person@xxxxxxxxx", with the person being one 
high level officer of the corporation, containing a request by the 
Committee, one would naturally assume that an answer is expected. At 
least for basic courtesy.

Or, every time that we suggest that ICANN does something and ICANN 
doesn't, we might simply assume an implicit "no" and draw our own 
consequences from it.
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