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Re:ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of ... by Ensorceled on Friday May 01, 2020 @07:11AM (#23040918)
There needs to be a difference between the stewardship roles and the doer/self-interests roles. You can pay the doer, but the stewards are ideally volunteers who care about the mission.

That this decision was made in the first place, and that ICANN took so long to withhold consent, shows that there are not enough stewards in either organization.

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Re:ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of ... by C1sc0cat on Friday May 01, 2020 @09:16AM (#23041679)
The problem was that oversight roles where hamstrung deliberately by the executive (doers)

Holding meetings in far flung and hard to get to places was one tactic

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Re:ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of ... by Ensorceled on Friday May 01, 2020 @10:03AM (#23042066)
The actual problem is that the oversight roles didn’t immediately dismiss the executive when they pulled these tricks.
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Re:ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of ... by C1sc0cat on Friday May 01, 2020 @10:20AM (#23042218)
Your not wrong you need a strong chair and a commitment to good governance - I suspect there where a lot of buggins turn appointees with no experience in holding an executive to account.
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Re:ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of ... by sjwright on Friday May 01, 2020 @08:39AM (#23041390)
Exactly right.
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