Fwd: [Governance] ICANN and the public interest issue in CS priority document

[Meryem Marzouki <marzouki@ras.eu.org>]

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> De: Vittorio Bertola <vb@bertola.eu.org>
> Date: Lun 14 juil 2003  17:10:39 Europe/Paris
> À: Meryem Marzouki <marzouki@ras.eu.org>
> Cc: ct@wsis-cs.org, plenary@wsis-cs.org, hr-wsis@iris.sgdg.org, 
> governance@lists.cpsr.org
> Objet: Rép : [Governance] ICANN and the public interest issue in CS 
> priority document
>
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:41:13 +0200, you wrote:
>
>> A/ Those who request the deletion of this sentence - mostly members of
>> the governance working group who are participating to the ICANN
>> process, some of them having been elected at ICANN board -
>
> Just for the sake of precision, no one has been elected to the ICANN
> board since year 2000 - the new Board was just appointed from the top
> by a nominating committee through a secret process.
>
> As for the rest, I share Adam's concerns, but I am also concerned
> about expressing unconditional support to an organization where
> participation opportunities for civil society have been constantly
> shrinking in time, and have been moving from electing half of the
> Board to electing an advisory committee (which I have the honour to
> chair) without any actual power or funding.
>
> So perhaps a good compromise solution would be replacing the paragraph
> with a different one that states support for private-sector-led
> management of the Internet, but asks for stronger powers for civil
> society and for an internationalization of the legal and operational
> structure of ICANN, and advises a role of "watchdogs" of the process
> for the governments. Perhaps this could gain support by a good number
> of governments without supporting a shift of powers to the advantage
> of the ITU.
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