Hi, On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn@gmail.com>wrote:
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:47 PM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
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.
These legal complications were probably well understood, yet this proposal surfaced, at the ITU Plenipotentiary. Irrespective of the legal feasibility or workability, this was calculatedly brought up. The Internet Community is silent on this
Well there are a variety of Internet Community folk in Guadalajara, providing advice and doing capacity building. Unfortunately, they are not allowed inside the meeting proper to have a voice. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel