On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:07:16 +1200 (MAGST), Franck Martin <franck.martin@gmail.com> wrote:
And what is wrong with the GAC?
From my personal perspective, the GAC lacks authority and, in a certain way, credibility. Depending how important ICANN is considered under the local political context, some governments will send senior officials. Some will send junior officials. Some come from the telecoms ministry, some from the economy ministry or foreign affairs, some from the telecom regulation authority. Some have a well defined political agenda, others only a tourism agenda.
IMHO, the GAC crowd is too large and heterogeneous to come up with a clearly defined policy. At one stage, we need limited number of serious high level diplomats. Now, how they are chosen is a different matter. And a very scary one I do not wish to solve. Patrick -- Blog: http://patrick.vande-walle.eu Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/patrickvw Identica: http://identi.ca/patrickv