Hi,

While it is true that all directors must serve the best interests of ICANN, their perceptions of what is best depends on who they are and the perceptions they walk in with. Additionally each of the groups they come from can and often do, send documents in that become part of the basis the Board must use to find the public interest. Given their affinity to the perspective of the SO/AC they come from (plus reelection and all that) those perspectives are discussed to death in the Board's deliberations (I do wish they did a better job of showing what the rough and tumble of discussions looks like - want to argue transparency, sign me up).

Additionally on any fundamental change there is the Empowered Community that has a voice and can overrule the board. In this ALAC does have a full and equal voice.

Finally, while not strictly speaking bicameral, the Bylaws defined relationship of the GAC and the Board could be seen as hinting at the very thing you seem to be talking.

cheers,

avri

On 2024-12-18 19:00, Evan Leibovitch via CPWG wrote:

Oh, and one other thing, significant enough that it merits an addendum:

On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 7:51 AM David Mackey via NA-Discuss <na-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

 

Is there an ICANN At-Large equivalent component that has board level representation at ICAO/IATA? 

 

It is worth reminding at this time that At-Large does **NOT** have Board representation within ICANN. Never did.

 

ALAC gets to send someone. Once that person is seated, they are sworn by ICANN's lawyers to explicitly disavow representing the constituency that sent them, and to only consider the interests of ICANN-the-entity.

I refer you to this slide presentation, and specifically slide #9. Could not possibly be more clear.

 

In other words, I would most definitely not want public-interest representation in any future Internet governance body, multilateral or multistakeholder or multi-anything, to resemble the crippled At-Large voice within ICANN.

This is not a feature worth boasting about.

 

Cheers,

Evan

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