[governance] ICANNLeaks - Loosing Trust to Maintain the Secrecy

[Alain Berranger]

Thks Milton,

...I find your perspective and metaphor valuable... However, this current
glitch may just be "the straw that breaks the camel's back". There are
other issues as big or bigger (you mention some) that justify perhaps a
fast track introspection of our current governance issues in order to fix
the most obvious two or three...

Alain


On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

> I am not sure I agree with the premise that an implementation mistake by
> the staff constitutes grounds for completely reinventing and rethinking
> ICANN. Can someone explain the logic of that to me? For example, if the
> Capitol building of one of the world's first democracies, e.g., the USA,
> had collapsed due to incompetent construction, would it mean that we should
> re-think the nature of democracy?
>
> I think they need to fix the mistake, fire those responsible, and move on.
>
> The root of the problem, to my mind, is not the governance model but, in
> this order: a) management problems; b) the rube Goldberg-like complexity of
> the new TLD program, and c) the more than a decade-long delay in accepting
> a policy, which means that we are dealing with a sudden flood of 1000+
> applications rather than a steady trickle of 10 or so a year, and which,
> like b), is a product of the intense politics swirling around the program.
>
> Remember that this has never been done before.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> >
> > ICANN needs to rethink and reorganize itself!
> >
>



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