correction inline On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:04 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 [can not afford to be] silent on this, because the Diplomatic impact of even this unworkable idea is unknown. We can't take ITU mischief so lightly.
In this context, in my article I raised a larger question which definitely requires attention: Should the Telecommunication Business Union continue to have the privilege of this extraordinary partnership with the Governments of the World?
Sivasubramanian M
Fat chance.
Sometimes when it sounds like a lot of hot air, it really is a lot of hot air. I entirely agree that ICANN has a lot of self-inflicted wounds and self-generated enemies, but this isn't going anywhere.
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