Re: [ALSC-Forum] Self-regulation and ICANN

[Jeff Williams]

Bob and all stakeholders or interested parties,

desertbobp wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Williams" <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>
> To: "desertbobp" <desertbobp@home.com>
> Cc: "Daryl Tempesta" <lyradius@yahoo.com>; "Kent Crispin"
> <kent@songbird.com>; <forum@atlargestudy.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [ALSC-Forum] Self-regulation and ICANN
>
> > Bob and all stakeholders or interested parties,
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> >   Of course your suggestion is a good one.  And unless I am mistaken,
> > there have been three posts to this forum in the past two days making
> > such
> > suggestions on how to improve or provide for selection or candidates.
> > One, which I agreed with and was hotly debated and a general consensus
> > was determined, is that the Regional approach as to candidate for @large
> >
> > members is not legitimate and has inherent problems as should be
> > replaced
> > with Country based selection of @large directors.
>
> How do we allocate 4 (or 9?) atLarge board seats across the large, ever
> changing number of countries?

  I can't say that there are "Ever changing number of countries".  If so,
please provide some recent evidence to this contention?  As to the
substance of you question, is that the 9 should be included initially.
We are not advocating each country have a Board member.  Perhaps
I was not as clear on this point as I should have been...  But each country
that has participating or interested parties should be able to be members
and vote without the egregious restrictions that currently have been
imposed upon qualifying as members that the present ICANN BoD
has edicted.

>
>
> > A second was a
> > suggestion that the ICANN BoD whom betrayed their own agreement,
> > of originally having 9 @large directors be fulfilled.  Also a suggestion
> > I
> > agreed with as do our members.
>
> How?  Using the same process as was used for the current 5?

  Certainly not with the skewed method to determine the present 5.
Rahter a method that the the majority of the @large membership
can agree upon.

>
>
> My original comment was aimed at getting something in place quickly to fill
> the remaining atLarge seats in order to balance off the entrenched power of
> the current board as soon as possible.  My feeling is that almost any
> broadly board member will be (more) likely to represent the interests of
> internet users.

  But why not insure that any new @large board member is answerable
to the internet users or otherwise stakeholders?

>
>
> I understand that there are problems with the regional approach, but I've
> yet to see a proposed process based on countries that I think will work.
> Going thru the national governments will be an enormous job and take years!

  The regional approach if fine.  But the present regional designation is not
representative.

>
>
> <snip>
>
> Bob Palm
> Adjunct Instructor - Glendale Community College

Regards,

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