Re: [ga] FYI: Working Paper on At Large Advisory Committee

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Karl and all assembly members, stakeholders or other interested parties,

  Here Here Karl!  Well said and done!

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Alexander Svensson wrote:
>
> > >Why not just have the groups directly inerface with ICANN?
> >
> > let me explain by taking a look at a very different Advisory
> > Committee...
>
> Please note that "Advisory" means that the advice has no force, no ability
> to compel.
>
> That means that an "advisory" body has no ability to hold ICANN to account
> for its actions.
>
> And it is accountability to the public that is so completely lacking from
> ICANN.
>
> An "advisory" body would be a sham and an insult to the public and its
> interest in the way that the Internet is run.
>
> The public requires a way to clearly mandate its views upon ICANN.  This
> means, at a minimum, the ability to select the majority of people who sit,
> with full powers, on ICANN's decision making organs.
>
> Nothing less is adequate.
>
> > ... but the GAC is the formal interface between governments and ICANN.
>
> About the only "formal" role that I, as a member of ICANN's Board of
> Directors, have observed for the GAC is that its chairman often attends
> the pre-meeting dinner and that it issues highly equivocal reports
> designed to offend no one.
>
> > User groups currently *don't* have that kind of interface.
>
> Of course, not.  ICANN has made it clear that the public interest is
> simply not part of ICANN's interest.
>
> Why do you think that ICANN would reverse its historical stance and
> respond to a public advisory committee?
>
> The public deserves nothing less than the ability to seat, and unseat, a
> majority of the members of ICANN's highest decision-making body.
>
>                 --karl--
>
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