[governance] ICANNLeaks - Loosing Trust to Maintain the Secrecy

[William Drake]

I agree.  The governance model has issues, but this is a separate matter.  We've just gone through the whole GNSO restructuring, ramping up the AoC process, etc.  ICANN doesn't need and probably couldn't handle another extended bout of navel-gazing debate about reinvention right now.  It needs to let the dust settle for awhile, get new leadership in place, get new gTLDs up and running, sort out IANA, advance the "internationalization" and outreach efforts, etc.  Plenty on the plate already.

I can't imagine that the business folks that are laying out big cash and maneuvering around new names aren't already screaming about the screw up, or that the management won't be compelled to explain what happened and assure everyone it hasn't skewed the application process for/against anyone.  If there's going to a joint request for info from SO/AC chairs or whatever, fine, but it's not obvious to me NCSG needs to spend a bunch of cycles on this unless folks are looking for something to do.

Bill

On Apr 19, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Milton L Mueller 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? 
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> I think they need to fix the mistake, fire those responsible, and move on. 
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> 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. 
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> Remember that this has never been done before.  
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