The Purpose of Constituencies?

[Milton L Mueller]

Andrew:
There is no "power" that comes by forming a constituency. The old linkage between Council seats and constituencies is gone (thank God).


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> Andrew A. Adams
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> Milton and Jolie,
> 
> Thanks for the information.
> 
> I'm still conflicted on whether an academic constituency would be
> worthwhile.
> If it is needed to help balance the power distribution in NCSG because
> of the way ICANN/GNSO views NCSG then it's a necessary evil, given that
> we had the formal constituency model imposed upon us by the Board
> (that's my reading of the charter process anyway - that NCSG had a
> majority opposed to constituencies and that we weakened the Board's
> requirements for giving power to constituencies but couldn't manage to
> avoid them having some significant effect). We should think carefully as
> to whether and how to work it. I think most of the academics here would
> be willing to work to only exert any power that came with a constituency
> in such a way as to counterbalance other unrepresentative power blocs
> rather than to try to exert our own power. While the academics might
> have other personal interests, of course, most of us I think are here
> because we have an interest in trying to make ICANN fairer and better
> run. On balance, therefore, with some careful drafting of a charter I
> might be willing to support an academic constituency.
> 
> 
> 
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> Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and Deputy
> Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
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