[At-Large] ICANN oversight

[Christopher Wilkinson]

Olivier is right about this.

CW


On 10 Oct 2015, at 21:35, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com> wrote:

> Dear Bill,
> 
> comments in the text below:
> 
> On 10/10/2015 19:58, Bill Silverstein wrote:
>> On Sat, October 10, 2015 10:51 am, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 10/10/2015 18:17, Bill Silverstein wrote:
>>>> ICANN needs to have people that will oversee its actions, or lack of.
>>> And you are saying that the best people to perform this oversight will
>>> be the industry which you ask ICANN to regulate?
>>> Kindest regards,
>>> 
>>> Olivier
>>> 
>> No. That is how the problems occurred in the first place, or at least in
>> public.
>> 
>> Maybe one or two people from the industry that ICANN is supposed to
>> regulate but some from the general registration public and the general
>> internet using public (who understand the internet.)
> 
> Well -- IMHO, the current CCWG Accountability Proposal proposes that the
> Board could be over-ruled, or dismissed, or individual Board members
> could be kicked out by a Committee whose composition is such that the
> GNSO & CCNSO, both composed primarily of people who are in the business
> of domain names, could have a majority irrespective of the Advisory
> Committees like the ALAC. The ALAC might have only 1 person on the ICANN
> Board, at least the NomCom selected Board members are somehow
> independent of the Domain Name Industry.
> That's what bothers me deeply in a membership model that allocates votes
> to SOs/ACs instead of working on Consensus.
> Kind regards,
> 
> Olivier
> 
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