new chart on structure of GNSO and ICANN

[Milton L Mueller]

I have already sent scathing messages about this to Peter Dengate Thrush
and Susan Crawford, three days ago. Susan promised to do push staff to
something about it. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norbert Klein [mailto:nhklein at gmx.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:45 AM
> To: NCUC-DISCUSS at listserv.syr.edu; Milton L Mueller
> Cc: Carlos Afonso; Robin Gross
> Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] new chart on structure of GNSO and ICANN
> 
> Thanks to Robin and Carlos, this new ICANN chart got wider attention.
> 
> What are we going to do? Accept this quietly? Or can our ExCom draft a
> short/quick statement and send it to the ICANN Board Chair, the ICANN
CEO,
> and the GNSO Chair, saying something like "don't try to pretend to the
> public
> that the GNSO reform is already finished without taking our opinion
into
> account?
> 
> Norbert
> 
> =
> 
> On Thursday, 3 April 2008 09:28:02 Carlos Afonso wrote:
> 
> > Interesting, there are "consumers" (NUCU) and "users" (ALAC). So, we
> > discover now that, for ICANN, ALAC constituencies do not consume!
How do
> > you manage, ALACers? If they consume anything, they will be NCUC!
> >
> > Fragile structures (the strong ones, of course, are the ones with a
> > single, clear motivation -- making money; the rest... is the rest,
in
> > that vision) make for fragile representation and participation.
> >
> > --c.a.
> >
> > Robin Gross wrote:
> > > ICANN has posted a new chart on its website to explain ICANN's
> structure.
> > >   http://www.icann.org/structure/
> > >
> > > The new chart is very revealing of ICANN's deference to Regi$trie$
and
> > > Regi$trar$ in the GNSO (in bold) and oddly describes NCUC as
> > > "universities/consumers".
> > >
> > > Robin
> 
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