RE: [ga] RE: Selecting Comments to Read Aloud

[Kendall Dawson <kendall@obs-us.com>]

At 06:05 PM 2/20/2001 -0500, Joanna Lane wrote:

>Let the BoD meet in-person, but why anybody else?

With all due respect Joanna, I don't see how this will help. If the MAL is 
given a chance and the other 4 BoD members are elected by the Internet 
users - then this could possibly work. But, with the current Board (such as 
it is) this is a very bad idea. We don't have enough elected 
representatives! What incentive is there for the Board members to 
acknowledge remote participants? Would they even be required to answer 
questions from remote participants? Or, would they do what they are best at 
- ignoring everyone and do what the big-money and IP interests tell them to do?

My favorite quote from the November's L.A. meeting:

[Louis Toutin to the Audience:] "... you're here to observe not to participate"

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/scripts/rammaker.asp?s=cyber&dir=icann&file=icann-111600&start=06-09-20

This sums up the problem with ICANN perfectly. Maybe they should change 
their homepage to read:

"As a non-profit, private-sector corporation, ICANN is dedicated to 
preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting 
competition [except NSI]; to achieving broad representation of global 
Internet communities [except individuals]; and to developing policy through 
private-sector, bottom-up [except individuals], consensus-based means (ie: 
consensus of the Board and JDRP). ICANN welcomes the observation of any 
interested Internet user,  and the participation of business, or IP 
organization."








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