[ncdnhc-discuss] Board retreats and fully transparent process for ICANN

[James Love]

Dave, you might check with your local city government to see what a good set
of open meeting and open records laws look like.  I spend a lot of time with
international organizations, and while the issue of transparency is a big
problem, it is considered a good thing, and efforts are always underway to
make governing bodies provide more openness.  The World Health Assembly and
its executive board run the World Health Organization.   Most of these
sessions are public, and this is not uncommon among many organizations in
the UN family, although there are exceptions, typically when personnel
matter or litigation is discussed, and sometimes in UN agencies, for
subgroups working on negotiating texts.  Widespread use of recording
technologies are common too, to preserve a record of what happened.     As a
private body with a very small track record to establish trust, ICANN should
embrace openess as the routine and normal way of doing business.  If you
want to find bad examples where there is little transparency and little
openess, you can probably find them.   The GAC is pretty closed, for
example.  But why would we want ICANN to be a bad example?  Jamie

http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#III
ARTICLE III: TRANSPARENCY AND PROCEDURES

Section 1. GENERAL

The Corporation and its subordinate entities shall operate to the maximum
extent feasible in an open and transparent manner and consistent with
procedures designed to ensure fairness.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Crocker" <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>
To: "James Love" <james.love at cptech.org>
Cc: "NCDNHC-discuss list" <discuss at icann-ncc.org>
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] Board retreats and fully transparent process
for ICANN


: At 07:05 AM 5/25/2002 -0400, James Love wrote:
: >Are the ICANN BOD practice of holding closed to the public "retreats"
where
: >it negotiates the fundamental policies for ICANN consistent with
: >requirements or promises for fully transparent and open processes?   I
think
: >not.   Is there anything in the ICANN bylaws or MOU that speaks to this?
:
:
: The idea that the Board should be prohibited from having any discussions
: that are away from the circus of a public fishbowl is quite impressive.
:
: Please cite any other global operations administrations organizations that
: are subject to such extreme restrictions?
:
: d/
:
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