[NCSG-Discuss] ICANN is bottom-up, except for when it is top-down. Fwd: Memorandum on the Trademark Clearinghouse ³Strawman Solution²

[Horacio T. Cadiz]

On 03/22/2013 07:51 PM, Wendy Seltzer wrote:

> Agreed! We need to play in external forums, either as complainants or
> supporters. I've thought we could do more by showing that we're useful
> supporters of the ICANN model (as distinct from supporting everything
> ICANN-the-org does) in other forums where it's challenged. We stand
> firmly behind multi-stakeholder bottom-up governance, and in that vein,
> demand that *all* the stakeholders have voice in the consensus policy
> decisions.

   In the board, there is only one rep from the staff. The structure
doesn't really represent the power the staff wields.  If they wanted
to backdoor these proposals, they should have at least created
the Staff Support Organization (SSO).

   So how do we go about doing changing this?


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