Re: [ga] Reform in the GA?

[Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

Blast! Eric, you beat me to it!  Good points, indeed!

Eric Dierker wrote:

> Slow down please.
> Please review other "SO" restrictions and liberties. This may look like a leap
> forward but I along with members of the US committees and DoC are concerned with
> procedural and actual proper representation and  due process.
> Argued from the point of getting it through, this proposal has ceded it's power
> back to the NC.

> " members whose unique identities have been verified,(no way, the NC is left to
> determine the criteria) shall select its chair annually, and at such other times
> as the chair shall become vacant." What? no no no, reversion perhaps, interim
> perhaps, pro tem perhaps but not lame duck. especially if it is due to (i)(B).
>
> (i)(B) The Board may, with concurrence of a majority of all of its members,
> whether voting or not, remove the Chair of the General Assembly for good
> cause shown. (the argument was we could have a wing nut as chair. How does it
> follow the NC decides when a Chair needs to be removed? When they question the
> NC? (Yikes whether voting or not?????) That is carte Blanche.

Quite effectively so.

> I love the work that went into this but in that they were redrafted by a word
> expert these gaping holes should be reviewed, and not lightly.

I concur.

> Look at the IP's by laws they get to decide who is in or out as members much
> less their own reps.  They even get to have a bylaw that says that any
> recommendation made to the BoD of  ICANN reflect their views. This proposal
> requires we are lap dogs of the NC.

Yes, that was a most interesting and singular stipulation in the IPC
"Constituency's" bylaws!  It struck me that although I produce a great deal of
Intellectual Property, I cannot be a true member of the Intellectual Property
Constituency...  Ah... how those IP lawyer-types manage to do this sort of thing in
public is what amazes me most!  Truly shameless behaviour.  Tsk, tsk...

Will someone please remind me what exactly it is we're all so busy doing here?  What
is the orientation and intention in all this *activity*?  Can someone actually lift
me up out of the maze for a moment and remind me what the true purpose of all this
participation in these ICANN forums happens to be?

In Lingua Rosa,

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
        Hermes Network, Inc.



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