Re: [ga] Board Meeting on .biz, .info, .org contracts advanced by one week

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl and all,

  Any board or member of any board that let's it's staff direct it's
agenda is incompetent.

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> kidsearch wrote:
> > Wow, like lets hurry it even more, we only have a few years til those
> > contracts expire.
>
> Well, from my experience on the board, the board's agenda is set by
> "staff" and not by the board itself.
>
> (In fact "staff" has a history of actively impeding attempts by board
> members to put things on the agenda.  When Andy M-M and I tried to put
> things onto the agenda there were suddenly new rules about advance
> notice and other gobbldygook raised in order to prevent our items from
> being added.)
>
> The lack of control of its own agenda is YAEOHICHNB - Yet Another
> Example of How ICANN's Board Has No B* [backbone?]
>
> ICANN's board really should hire their own attorney, non JDRP of course,
> to help 'em stand up to "staff".
>
> (I've also long believed that ICANN board members ought to get a board
> fee - perhaps $25,000 to $50,000 each per year - to cover the effort
> required to keep up with all the materials they have to read and
> understand, but also to make 'em understand that they are in a position
> of significance and that they are the plenary body that is not only in
> total control of ICANN, despite the GAC, and ultimately responsible,
> even in some circumstances in their personal capacities and personal
> assets.  It would have the negative aspect of making 'em no longer
> "volunteer" directors under the laws that govern director liability.)
>
>                 --karl--

Regards,

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