That makes some sense, Roberto, and I don't think that the conflict you mention is restricted only to the SO-appointed Directors. Some questions: - Therefore, Directors would be independently selected to represent the interests of the different communities from within ICANN? - What would be the optimum number of ICANN Board members to achieve fair representation across ICANN? - Would the NomCom making the selection remain in its current composition - with GNSO (7) At-Large (5) and one member each from ASO, CCNSO, IETF, GAC, RSSAC, SSAC, and the ICANN Board selecting the Chair and Chair Elect? On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 8:18 PM Roberto Gaetano < mail.roberto.gaetano@gmail.com> wrote:
At the time of the NomCom Review I posted a comment recommending that the NomCom selects all the members of the ICANN Board. The rationale for that was that the SO-appointed Directors were in a permanent conflict because although they had a fiduciary responsibility to ICANN they were nevertheless obliged to follow the interest of their own organization if they wanted to be re-elected. We had in the past exemplary cases of independence by Directors, but also cases of the contrary. There were also other considerations, but at this early stage I just want to throw this idea as brainstorming, we can develop it later if other people find it worth exploring. Cheers, R
On 22.11.2019, at 01:24, Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com> wrote:
One place to begin thinking about goals is to look at the list of things in this ICANN document:
http://archive.icann.org/en/meetings/santiago/membership-analysis.htm
Another place might be to look at some of the rather mild proposals that we made in the BWG (Boston Working Group) submission way back when:
https://cavebear.com/archive/bwg/submission-letter.html
Personally I'd like a return to the original commitment made during ICANN's formation that at least a majority of ICANN board of directors be chosen (indirectly or directly) by the community of internet users.
It could be illuminating if people here sat down, fired up their hopes and imaginations, and set down their vision of what a properly formed ICANN, unfettered by the present structure, would be.
How those hopes could be achieved is a hard question.
The lawyer in me tends to think of means that resemble the fabled use of a 2x4 to get the attention of a reluctant mule.
Perhaps one might want to coax ICANN to recognize that it is (or at least was in year 2000) a membership based public-benefit/non-profit per California Law.
Another possible means would be to revisit the grounds upon which ICANN receives its US Federal tax exemption (501(c)(3)). It's been years since I last looked, but initially it was, if I remember correctly, "to lessen the burdens of government" (for the US gov't.) If that's still the foundation, it would be one that is filled with cracks and crumbling.
Those might not be good approaches - they might engender a lot of resentment (they would certainly engender a lot of legal fees paid by ICANN to Jones Day. ;-)
--karl--
On 11/21/19 3:10 PM, bzs@theworld.com wrote:
Perhaps I'm being naive but what seems to me is missing in this conversation is: By what process might this ship be righted?
Multiple choice is acceptable.
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