[ncdnhc-discuss] ITU on ICANN

[James Love]

If a body has no interest in straying from a narrow mandate, surely it
would be useful to have a more enforceable limit to the mandate, in
order to reduce public concerns that this or a future board may get into
areas where they should not.

I would agree that for the most part ICANN has not exceeded its mandate,
and this is a good thing.  Perhaps some on this is due to the various
bottom up consensus type rules that ICANN is supposed to follow.   Lynn
wants to change things, and other do also, to make ICANN more dynamic,
but also less subject to these internal restraints.  If so, it seems to
me that it would be good to formalize the boundary issue, as ITU has
suggested.

  Jamie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Crocker" <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>
To: "James Love" <james.love at cptech.org>
Cc: "ncc" <discuss at icann-ncc.org>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] ITU on ICANN


> At 02:11 PM 4/15/2002 -0400, James Love wrote:
> >     "Working with ICANN to define an internationally agreed
restatement
> >and description of the boundaries for ICANN's policymaking mission. "
>
> 1.  In spite of the many statements of concern about ICANN exceeding
its
> scope, ICANN board and staff have shown no signs of interest in going
> beyond administration of names, numbers and parameters.  Hence a
discussion
> that focuses on scope is a discussion that has nothing to do with real
> ICANN issues.
>
> 2.  The one area of contention about ICANN scope that is somewhat
subtle
> is, of course, the UDRP.  The irony of having ITU participate in a
> discussion on that topic is that the ITU was a member of the committee
that
> formulated the original proposal for a UDRP as part of the IAHC
effort.
>
> d/
>
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