Hello Franck, not so sure: looking at NomCom applications, whilst a lot of applications were from the "usual suspects", there were also a lot of new names and people who wished to assume a leadership position at ICANN. ICANN is increasingly seen as an interesting experiment in multi-stakeholder participation - not only something of interest if you have a direct stake in domain names. I despair to hear everybody saying "ICANN needs this, ICANN needs that" and finding out that so few people out there are doing real outreach - because outreach is the key to more people being interested in ICANN, and outreach, in my opinion, should not be function solely done by the RALO heads, secretaries & committee members of ALAC. Outreach is something which everybody in At Large should be doing. Until we all speak out, and take every opportunity possible to communicate the mission we have defined ourselves, at conferences, IGF, meetings, at industry events and parties and even with people we meet on aircraft around the world, we'll have a high likelyhood of finding the usual suspects applying for ICANN leadership positions. Until then, our world will not reach further than the other edge of our teacup. :-) Kind regards, Olivier Le 28/08/2010 00:57, Franck Martin a écrit :
Unless there is a system like Jury Duty, you will only have at the ICANN board, people who are interested by ICANN matters (the ICANN sphere).
So let's not live in an utopia.
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It's been my observation that ICANN needs more "doer" directors than "goer" directors. Amen.
IMHO, even if you pay $100K you won't attract the kind of director ICANN needs, many in the ICANN sphere have dedicated years to build the eco-system from where they and their backers feed.
I'd love to see more than 50% of the directors being really independent and out of the ICANN-sphere.
Until that happens we keep playing the dancing chairs game.
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