[ncdnhc-discuss] Fwd: notes from ICANN Retreat by Andy Mueller-Maguhn

[Erick Iriarte]

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>Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 09:55:10 +0200
>To: DNSO General Assembly <ga at dnso.org>
>From: Alexander Svensson <svensson at icannchannel.de>
>Subject: [ga] Andy Mueller-Maguhn on the Board retreat
>
>
> >From: Andy Mueller-Maguhn <andy at ccc.de>
> >Subject: news from the icann board retreat
> >Cc: icann-news at 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 (don´t 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 gov´s 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 NGO´s 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 at 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 at centr.org worth reading
> >   (online?)
>
> >Materials and some pictures to be on my site tuesday night
> >when coming back to berlin.
> >
> >
> >regards,
> >A.
> >
> >---
> >
> >Andy Mueller-Maguhn, andy at ccc.de, Key ID 331F978, http://www.ccc.de/~andy
>
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