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[ga] FYI: "Overcoming ICANN"
This was just forwarded by Jay Fenello to the CSIF list: Dave
Farber, Peter G. Neumann, and Lauren Weinstein have published an
Open Letter to the Global Internet Community, entitled "Overcoming
ICANN: Forging Better Paths for the Internet."
The letter is available at <http://www.pfir.org/statements/icann>,
and required reading - in its entirety.
Some tasty bits:
- "ICANN's lack of meaningful representation, and its continuing
pattern of drastic and seemingly arbitrary structural and policy
changes (among other shortcomings), have created an unstable and
suspicion-ridden environment that is detrimental to the interests
of the vast majority of Internet users around the world. The
resulting overly politicized situation not only threatens the
stability of the Internet itself, but also invites drastic and
undesirable interventions by a variety of vested interests."
- "Wide consensus has already been achieved on at least one key
point -- even by ICANN's current president -- ICANN is seriously
broken. We agree, and we additionally assert that ICANN's history,
structure, and behaviors strongly indicate that the most
productive course would be for ICANN's role in Internet affairs to
be discontinued."
As a cure to the problems in ICANN, the authors suggest: (1) "all
Internet policy, operational, and other [...] functions currently
performed by ICANN should be transferred", as soon as practicable,
to some other organization such as the IAB as a transitional
measure. (2) A study be started "with a mandate to propose detailed
and meaningful paths for the Internet's development". (3) Results
of that study should be carefully considered and implemented.
This statement is certainly demonstrating that public distrust in
ICANN's board, and ICANN as a whole, has reached a new climax after
the Lynn proposal and the Accra decisions. To me, it seems
unreasonable to believe that any kind of trust in the ICANN board
could be restored by either keeping the current directors, or
selecting new ones in a circular nomination committee approach. In
fact, this approach would perpetuate current distrust.
Quite frankly, I do not see any other way to re-establish trust in
this board than replacing a considerable number of directors (like
those whose terms expire later this year) by way of public elections
- whatever be the mechanism used for these elections. And even that
doesn't have to work.
--
Thomas Roessler http://log.does-not-exist.org/
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