Re: [ALSC-Forum] Comments on Study: ""ICANN and the Problem of Legitimacy"

[Jeff Williams]

Bruce and all stakeholders and interested parties,

Bruce Young wrote:

> I totally agree.  Although we in the US created the Internet, our "baby" has
> grown up, and it's time to be good parents and let it out into the world!
> :)

  Agreed.  And it should be plainly obvious as well...

>
>
> ICANN will only have true authority when the Internet community at large --
> every living, breathing one of us -- accepts that authority and deferrs to
> it.  That will never happen as long as the old vested interests continue to
> keep control. If ICANN's rules are discussed, voted on and approved directly
> by the majority of the Internet community at large, that will be true
> ligitimacy! :)

  Yes, unless or until the ICANN BoD has allowed or provided for as
is required in the White Paper and the MoU stakeholder/user membership
and proper elections of the full 9 member @large directors, any policies
currently imposed upon the stakeholder community are NOT legitimate.


>
>
> Bruce Young
> Portland, Oregon
> byoung651@home.com
> http://members.home.net/byoung651/index.html
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Saudia-Online [mailto:hadi@saudia-online.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 4:54 AM
> To: forum@atlargestudy.org
> Cc: Bruce Young
> Subject: [ALSC-Forum] Comments on Study: ""ICANN and the Problem of
> Legitimacy"
>
> Comments on Study: ""ICANN and the Problem of Legitimacy"
>
> Being new to this forum and Reading all the positive and negative opinions,
> I think that Mr. Young has addressed a very basic and important corner stone
> of this organization which has to be constructed and established first.
>  This organization should address all problems, laws, and regulations
> related to the internet world wide based on set plan, rules and regulation
> which should be decided by the  Internet community at large through their
> currant ICANN directors elected from the --Internet community at
> large --carrying out the will of their constituents, this will give ICANN
> its legitimacy. So this proposed plan, regulation and principles should be
> proposed by the currant ICANN directors then put for discussion by all the
> ICANN members and finally to be voted on by ALL the Internet community,
> after establishing this big step we would have laid our Bill of rights and
> all the governing laws for this organization at that time we should have all
> the directors to be elected only by the  Internet community at large (Non of
> them should be appointed by governments), this organization is an
> international and global body representing all Internet users all over the
> planet and not for one nation to control, We should really turn it this way
> to be the first truly global organization democratically established,
> governed and  run by the Internet users in the earth planet.
>
> Hadi Bahra
> Jeddah- Saudi Arabia
> Hadi@saudia-online.com
> -------------------------------------------------
> http://www.saudia-online.com

Regards,

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