On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Richard J. Sexton wrote:
> Charlie's observation at the Boston ICANN meeting was that the ICANN
> board, coming from the corporate world, did now know how to operate
> in an open environment.
I love transcripts. From the Boston meeting with thanks to the Berkman
Center(http://cyber.harvard.edu/icann/archive/transtransparency.html):
MR. NESSON: Well, may I interpret the
4 question and see if I can elicit something more
5 from it from the Board? The question is, how
6 comfortable are you actually operating in the
7 open? And it can be carried through not just to a
8 question of corporate minutes and corporate
9 meetings, but to your full role as director of the
10 corporation. In a sense, openness is part of the
11 art of living, in some way. So, for example, I
12 find that my e-mail is a key part of the actual
13 transactional world that I'm now in, and I feel
14 that ICANN, if you're doing the job, is doing
15 something historical.
16 So the question would be, at what point
17 does your e-mail get archived and become public?
18 At what point do we see the thought process that
19 actually goes into whatever that screen is that
20 requires just enough delay to be practical, and
21 how fully does the screen come down? Who wants to
22 answer?
23 MR. KRAAIJGNBRINK: Well, I can try to
24 answer it, at least in part. I do not agree that
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1 the Board, up to now (inaudible) the adoption of
2 the by-laws, and you will find both (inaudible)
3 you'll find the reasoning of our decisions and the
4 reasoning behind (inaudible). If you would insist
5 on total transparency, which, to me, then would
6 mean that every Board meeting would have to be
7 (inaudible) of secretive meetings --
8 AUDIENCE: Why?
9 MR. KRAAIJGNBRINK: Why? Because a
10 decision-making process cannot be done in full
11 public.
12 AUDIENCE: What?
13 AUDIENCE: Why?
14 AUDIENCE: What?
15 MR. KRAAIJGNBRINK: The United States
16 government does not --
17 AUDIENCE: C-Span?
18 MR. KRAAIJGNBRINK: -- the United
19 States government does not meet in public. The
20 executive meetings are not in public, at least
21 (inaudible). The government reports on the
22 results and explains them reasonably. And I
23 believe that's what's (inaudible), because the
24 Board is a body, the Board is not a collection of
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1 individuals. And what you (inaudible) have to
2 reckon with is that we came from many different
3 directions, from many regions in the world, even,
4 and even amongst ourselves, we have to have a
5 learning process to come to fully reasoned and
6 reasonable decisions. So --
7 MR. NESSON: But Hans --
8 MR. KRAAIJGNBRINK: -- as I said -- as
9 I said before --
10 MR. NESSON: Hans --
11 MR. KRAAIJGNBRINK: -- you're asking
12 for the new clothes of the emperor, which is
13 running naked.
14 MR. NESSON: But Hans, isn't it just
15 possible that the learning process is exactly a
16 process of learning to live more in the open?
17 MR. KRAAIJGNBRINK: I think the
18 movement in this would be two ways. I believe
19 that the -- I believe that the working of the
20 Board will be more transparent than it has been up
21 to today. But on the other hand, I believe that
22 from (inaudible) listening today is that they have
23 to accept that a number of discussions for the
24 Board as a body will not have to be public. There
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1 is no need to be -- to watch every word we say,
2 because if you are speaking public, you have to
3 think about every word, you have to think about
4 aspects of privacy. Because in discussing
5 personal issues or things concerning (inaudible),
6 it cannot be put in public.
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