Re: [ga] Problems, as cited by Mr. Lynn

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 22:18 30/04/02 -0400, DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

>With this thought in mind, I have drafted a complete and bulleted list of the
>problems that were cited in Mr. Lynn's original paper so that the Council may
>better focus on providing specific solutions.  Hope this helps...
>
>Document at http://www.icannworld.org/problems.htm

Thanks Danny. Very useful.

As a suggestion the help the Board Committee forward:

35. At-Large –
·[Stuart L.]    For three years, this issue has dominated the ICANN agenda, 
occupied a considerable portion of very limited resources, and despite all 
this effort has still not produced an acceptable plan.

In effect this "issue" has been an on-going extra-judicial litigation in 
the public space.  Litigation is resorted to when the parties who *should* 
sit down  together refuse to do so. As Stuart notes, it is a significant 
distraction to management and its resources in time and money.

Recommendation: that the ICANN CEO and Staff initiates meaningful 
discussion, both public and private, with those individuals with whom  they 
thus far have been least inclined to do so.


·       no consensus to be found on At-Large.

Recommendation: that the Board Committee urges Mr Lynn and staff to look 
harder for common ground between supply and demand side stakeholders.

·       We must find another, more effective path for appropriate input 
into the ICANN process by the general user community that will accomplish 
the key purpose underlying the At Large concept – to ensure that the broad 
public interest is effectively reflected and protected in the ICANN 
consensus development process.

Not only broad public interest, also the specific interest of Individual 
Domain Name Holders must find its expression in the policy making bodies of 
ICANN.
Recommendation: that the Board follow the recommendations of the DNSO 
general assembly and allow an Individual Domain Name Holders' constituency 
into the organs of the DNSO.


·       ICANN would benefit greatly from an At Large organization that 
could conduct outreach, foster deliberation, and attract new ideas and 
voices to the ICANN process. I believe that a reformed ICANN should include 
this kind of At Large entity, designed to connect individuals in a very 
open and direct way to the ICANN process

Recommendation: that the Board Committee cautions the CEO and staff not to 
engage in practices of divide and rule or "selective encouragement" among 
the leaders of newly emerging At Large formation efforts.



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