[ga] Andy Mueller-Maguhn on the Board retreat

[Alexander Svensson <svensson@icannchannel.de>]

>From: Andy Mueller-Maguhn <andy@ccc.de>
>Subject: news from the icann board retreat
>Cc: icann-news@lists.ccc.de
>
>Hi,
>
>just a few notices from my flight from jfk, coming from
>the board retreat near NYC in garden city, long island.
>
>Disclaimer: nothing officially has been decided, this is
>a list of my notes of informal discussions.
>
>The retreat in a way was making sense because of it was an
>open  discussion about what "icann II" should be, what the 
>outcome of the process be etc. We had a less confrontative, 
>quiete constructive discussion, just interrupted by more or
>less a few struggles. 
>
>But (just the most important points):
>
>- no atlarge election of directors to be expected
>
>   for "technical" reasons (donīt know how) the majority
>   of the board agreed to not make any direct elections
>   with this year. on the direct questions, if any directors
>   would say "no direct at-large-elections under no
>   circumstances whatsoever" 5 directors outed themself:
>   stuart (lynn), vint (cerf), hans (kraijenbrink), rob (blokzijl), 
>   helmut (schink)
>
>- the majority of the board agreed to the idee of a nomination
>   committee (s)electing board members. status of the
>   discussion is to keep 18 board members + ceo (to be
>   discussed if allowed to vote) and some rought guidelines
>   for setting up the nomination committee (including
>   seats for advisory committees in the nomcom, that
>   means govīs included). but on the other hand side the
>   board agreed to the fact, that the empowering/selection
>   of board members by governments is not an realistic 
>   approach (at least for now)
>
>- some important questions like the jurisdiction of the
>   organization and the involvement of staff following or
>   developing policys where raised but not answered. this
>   means: we should watch the limit of the acting people 
>   even those acting with best attitutes..
>
>- in the discussion about the principles of the corporation
>   it was accepted that the outcome must be a balance
>   of interests when making policy. freedom of speech
>   was at least accepted by a majority to possibly be
>   affected when following intellectual property ideas.
>   so i do think, there is chances to involve NGOīs acting
>   in the area of freedom of speech in a "freedom of speech
>   constituency" or however to put something on the other
>   side of the intellectual property people
>
>- this means: setting up of the nomcom is the critical
>   issue now. taking balance of interests as the goal,
>   identifying all actors in the game and their interests
>   and impacts on the game is the job for the NGO community
>   in my eyes.
>
>And (watch out what comes next before calling it good news):
>
>- Stuart Lynn announced to retire in March of 2003
>
>- Joe Sims as Jones & Days announced to step out of
>   acting for ICANN soon. He did not mention a precise
>   date/time when, questioned by Vint said something
>   like "in the next month or similar to Stuarts retirement"
>
>- Andrew McLaughlin announced to be changing his
>   involvement to half time by 1st of July
>
>More stuff:
>
>- Rob came with an official (?!) paper from the european
>   commission (gordon.lennox@cec.eu.int) from May 21st.
>  I will scan this and put on my website tuesday night CET as
>  well as:
>
>-  "ICANN II - Issues to be resolved" paper from Christopher
>   Wilkinson, May 2002
>
>- CENTR paper "ccTLD Requierements for International
>   Coordination of the Domain Name System) from 
>   Marianne Wolfsgruber, gm@centr.org worth reading
>   (online?)

http://www.centr.org/news/ICANN-response.html


>Materials and some pictures to be on my site tuesday night
>when coming back to berlin. 
>
>
>regards,
>A.
>
>--- 
>
>Andy Mueller-Maguhn, andy@ccc.de, Key ID 331F978, http://www.ccc.de/~andy

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