At 19:00 22/11/2008, Ross Rader wrote:
On Nov 22, 2008, at 7:27 AM, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
If, for instance, ALAC would elect direct representatives to the Board, like the SOs,
I don't think this would be a step in the right direction. I mean, it might appear okay for the ALAC on its face, but I've always had concerns about the SOs appointing directors outside of the nominating committee process.
The NomCom process makes the BoD a Staff auditing committee. With no accountability to the users. The problem is very simple: nowadays users have the technical, political, organisational skills, and work on the post JPA structures, to replace in total or in part ICANN. Their motivation to do that was low until the Paris meeting where GAC had not signaled a particular position about the post Aug. 31, 2009. This has changed for bad or good with the position taken by Minister Besson for France and Europe, moreover in the present I¨Pv6 non-deployment and crazy "Internet for the Rich" gTLD scheme context. IMHO either the ICANN BoD comes back to a situation where the President has no vote and the @large 50% of the BoD or there will be several co-governing bodies of the Internet. Probably, ITU, ICANN and ATLARGE. One with power, one with money, one with knowledge. Until now the question was: is it what we want? I suppose this will be settled in Nice, Hyderabad and with the new US administration. jfc Email analysé par Internet Security (6.0.0.386) Version de la base de données : 5.11180 http://www.pctools.com/fr/internet-security/