[At-Large] Fwd: Board appointments to fill 3 non-commercial seats on the new Council

[Milton L Mueller]

David
Sympathy is not the issue here; the issue is that the entire representational structure of ICANN is supposed to be based on some basic stakeholder categories that are balanced. A person who represents commercial users of telecom services is NOT a proper representative of noncommercial stakeholders. (And I know, I spent 20 years in telecom policy circles and know various INTUG people and user groups in various countries. Your typical member of a telecom user group is a corporate network manager who purchases dedicated lines and telephone/internet services from vendors and lobbies for lower prices for business services.) Nothing wrong with that, it's just not bringing a noncommercial perspective into the policy debate. This is not a criticism of Ms. Sinclair, it's a criticism of the ICANN process and an irresponsible Board that is abusing its already illegitimate authority to appoint our representatives. 

You don't see someone from EFF being appointed to represent commercial stakeholders on the grounds that they hung around their meetings and seemed sympathetic to some of their concerns, do you? ;-) 

Milton Mueller
Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Non-Commercial User Constituency 
> [mailto:NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of David Cake
> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 1:21 AM
> To: NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] [At-Large] Fwd: Board 
> appointments to fill 3 non-commercial seats on the new Council
> 
> At 11:31 AM +0900 1/10/09, Adam Peake wrote:
> >>From: Denise Michel <denise.michel at icann.org>
> >>To: Cheryl Langdon-Orr <cheryl at hovtek.com.au>,
> >>	At-Large Worldwide <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
> >>Subject: [At-Large] Fwd: Board appointments to fill 3 
> non-commercial seats
> >>	on the new Council
> >>
> >>Dear Community Members,
> >>
> >>The Board has appointed the following individuals to serve 
> as Non-Commercial
> >>Stakeholder Group (NCSG) representatives on the new GNSO Council:
> >>
> >>  Mohammed Rafik Dammak - Tunisia
> >>  Rosemary Sinclair - Australia
> >>  Debra Hughes - United States
> 
> 	It is my recollection that Rosemary was at the NCUC meeting 
> in Sydney, and seemed very sympathetic to NCUC at the time. While I 
> would assume she has been lobbied by Consumer Constituency folk, it 
> is my hope that she will be sympathetic to NCUC arguments.
> 	Regards
> 		David
>