ICANN's "Unelected" Crisis..

[Carlos A. Afonso]

[resending -- I was somehow blocked by syr.edu since Sept.01]
[05-sept-2011]

Scary. When icannites tried to do an election, it was that "netizens"
(or whatever label you want to stick to a "generic" internet user -- so
the absurd "at large" concept emerged, like distraught cows in a herd of
cattle) mess in which "internetters" could elect five board members in
each region.

[]s fraternos

--c.a.

On 09/05/2011 05:35 PM, Alex Gakuru wrote:
> By Michael Roberts
> Sep 05, 2011
>
> The leaked release of the European Commission's working papers on the
> future of Top Level Domains highlights the impending collision between
> adherents of the present "multistakeholder" ICANN governance model,
> and an ever longer list of national governments who challenge that
> model.
>
> At the core of the controversy is the question of how ICANN can claim
> legitimacy in the DNS world when none of its Directors or Officers are
> elected. Even worse, its only answer, when challenged legally, is that
> it is responsive to its contract with an agency of the U.S.
> Government, which agency claims authority from the elected Congress of
> the United States through the agency's organic act, which nowhere
> mentions the Internet, ICANN, or the Domain Name System
> ....
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110905_icanns_unelected_crisis/
>