[ncdnhc-discuss] global government without representation ICANN style

[James Love]

WHAT ARE THEY THINKING?   The Committee on ICANN "reform" and evolution has
released its most astonishing document yet.   It wipes away every single
area where there might be independence from a completely all powerful board
of directors, which can pretty  do whatever it wants with the global DNS
system and controls its own elections (by hand picking its electors).  It
takes the current dysfunctional body, the ICANN DNSO, which is supposed to
make bottom up policy for domain name policy, and it replaces it with a
system where the ICANN board directly picks its chair and as many members of
the steering committee it considers appropriate.  It eliminates an elected
chair of the DNSO General Assembly.  It take away the DNSO's right to elect
members of the ICANN board, and the new "GNSO" can't really decide anything
anymore anyway, just in case the total control by the ICANN board isn't
enough of a power grab.  It gets rid of the "PSO", which includes
independent groups as the IETF or the W3C, which have not been sufficiently
docile.   The DoC MoU required independent review process, which was never
implemented, is now toast.   There is a loser pays arbitration just to ask
if the ICANN board is not obeying its own bylaws, which of course it can
change at the drop of a hat if it needs to.

This document is so completely in your face to the US Department of Commerce
and the Internet community one has to admire the guts of the current ICANN
board.  Vint Cerf, Joe Sims and the Reform Committe make Bill Gates and
Steve Balmer look like wimps.  Jamie


http://www.icann.org/committees/evol-reform/recommendations-31may02.htm

         Recommendations for the Evolution and Reform of ICANN
      Posted: 31 May 2002
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      Committee on ICANN Evolution and Reform
      Recommendations for the Evolution and Reform of ICANN

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      II. Board Composition

      These general principles lead us to the following conclusions on Board
composition:

        a.. The following should be ex officio Board seats, meaning the
person who currently holds that position occupies an ICANN Board seat:
          a. The CEO of ICANN
          b. The Chair (or delegate) of the GNSO Steering Committee
(Appointed by BOD)
          c. The Chair (or delegate) of the ASO Council
          d. The Chair (or delegate) of the CNSO Steering Committee
          e. The Chair (or delegate) of the GAC
          f. The Chair (or delegate) of the RSSAC
          g. The Chair (or delegate) of the SAC (appointed by ICANN CEO)
          h. The Chair (or delegate) of the TAC if established, or if not,
the Chair (or delegate) of the IAB.  (TAC probably appointed by  CEO)

* ICANN requests comments on whether or not some or all of these
should be non-voting members.

* There should be [five to eleven] additional members of the
Board, selected by a Nominating Committee.

* Nominating Committee both nominates and elects member the [five
to eleven] non-ex officio board members.  It also placed members directly on
the GNSO and other ICANN "advisory" bodies.   It is chaired by an ICANN
board member.

* Basically, the ICANN board chooses the Nominating Committee,
which in turn chooses the board.  The ICANN board may also have the right to
reject candidates selected by its hand picked nominatng committee.

NEW FACE OF DNSO (now called GNSO)

ICANN board picks the chair of the new GNSO, and the GNSO
steering committee includes "an appropriate number of other members selected
by the ICANN Nominating Committee."  The head of the GA will be chaired by
the ICANN board selected chair of the GNSO.   GNSO selects zero ICANN board
members.


NEW FACE OF PSO:

"The Protocol Supporting Organization should be dissolved."

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James Love mailto:james.love at cptech.org
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James Love mailto:james.love at cptech.org
http://www.cptech.org +1.202.387.8030 mobile +1.202.361.3040