Exactly! Bill Semich On Oct 9, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
Most of the time, I see ITU initiatives with the Internet as distractions. We will spend lot of time and efforts in dealing with them while we could focus our efforts to more important things, like getting ICANN right.
----- Original Message ----- From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Sent: Saturday, 9 October, 2010 9:17:20 AM Subject: Re: [At-Large] ITU versus ICANN
One proposal from Russian-speaking countries has gone so far as to call for scrapping the GAC, and have ITU give itself veto power over all ICANN board decisions. Even a compromise would essentially undermine the finality of any ICANN Board policy.
It's hard to see how the ITU could force itself on ICANN. The US government would have to agree, which seems rather unlikely. As someone else has noted, as a California non-profit ICANN cannot give anyone a veto over the board, so it would have to reincorporate somewhere else, or the US would have to sign a treaty specifically giving the ITU that authority.
Fat chance.
Sometimes when it sounds like a lot of hot air, it really is a lot of hot air. I entirely agree that ICANN has a lot of self-inflicted wounds and self-generated enemies, but this isn't going anywhere.
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