[At-Large] [BMSPC-2020] Board seat 15 selection

Mon Nov 18 16:46:29 UTC 2019

Thank you very much, Adam!      - Kaili

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 12:20 AM Adam Peake <adam.peake at icann.org> wrote:

> Please excuse this note from a member of staff!  The document attached
> might be of interest, a study of the global At-Large elections and a few
> recommendations. As Wolfgang noted, the elections did not continue after
> the first year.
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> Best,
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> Adam
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> *From: *At-Large <at-large-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org> on behalf of
> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
> *Date: *Monday, November 18, 2019 17:02
> *To: *Wolfgang Kleinwächter <wolfgang at kleinwaechter.info>, Kaili Kan <
> kankaili at gmail.com>, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
> *Cc: *"at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org" <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org
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> *Subject: *Re: [At-Large] [BMSPC-2020] Board seat 15 selection
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> Dear Wolfgang,
>
> thank you for finally writing this history! I have been waiting for this
> day for 10 years!
> Kindest regards,
>
> Olivier
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> On 17/11/2019 15:44, Wolfgang Kleinwächter wrote:
>
> Hi,
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> here is the full background story:
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>
> 1. The original bylaws (1998) did reserve 9 voting seats for an undefined
> "At Large Membership". 9 other voting seats were reserved for three SOs
> (DNSO, ASO, PSO). Ine seat for the CEO. There was a "placeholder" in the
> bylaws because nobody knew, what "At Large" is. An "Membership Advisory
> Committee" (MAC) was formed in Singapore during the 1st ICANN meeting in
> February 1999 (with the Berkman Center/Jonathan Zittrain as the academic
> back up). The MAC had a meeting during the 2nd ICANN in Berlin, July 1999.
> It concluded to identify the At Large voting directors via elections in the
> year 2000. The whole project was seen as a pilot project for
> "cyberdemocracy" and a bigger role of civil society on Internet policy
> making. The elections were described as an "experiment". They were
> organized with the help of a "Membership Implementation Task Force" (MITF).
> As a first step, the plan was to elect five directors from the five ICANN
> regions. The election was an exciting but also irritating experience. It
> worked and the community (around 200 000 voters) elected five directors
> which took their seat at the 2000 Annual Meeting in LA.
>
>
>
> 2. The elections produced a lot of questions. To answer those questions,
> ICANN etsbalished an "At Large Study Group" (ALG), chaired by the former
> Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt. The recommendations of the
> Bildt-Committee were presented at the ICANN meeting in Montevideo,
> September 2001. The main receommendation was to allow only "domainname
> holder" to participate in the election to avoid a misuse and to have a
> higher level of "representation" by stakeholders. Nevertheless, the
> Bildt-Proposal produced a wave of criticism by civil society. Such an
> approach would have excluded, inter alia, students, which have an e-Mail
> address but no domain name. The domain name is owned by the university
> which woulkd have only one vote in the new proposed system. The comparison
> was made to the election system in the middle ages where only "landowners"
> had a right to vote. The decision was postponed to the LA Annual Meeting in
> November 2001. The day after the At Large discussion on Montevideo two
> planes crashed into the twin towers in NYC.
>
>
>
> 3. 9/11 changed the political environment for the development of ICANN.
> ICANN was not seen anymore as a project for "cyberdemocracy" but as a
> question for "cybersecurity". US senators came to the ICANN meeting in LA
> and aksed tough questions how it can be avoided that a "terrorist" get
> elected into the ICANN Board of Directors. LA 2001 became the starting
> point of the first ICANN reform process.
>
>
>
> 4. The ICANN reform process was completed within less than two years. It
> included a restructuring of ICANN. The DNSO was subdivided into the GNSO
> and the CNSO. The PSO was abolished and transformed into  "technical liason
> group". The elections of Voting At Large directors were abolished. Instaed
> of election a "selection" process was introduced through a new "Nomimation
> Committee" (NomCom). The NomCom got the right to "select" 8 voting
> directors in a process, strechted over three years (3:3:2). At Large was
> transfered into an "At Large Advisory Committee" (ALAC) with one non-voting
> liaison in the board. New structures with "recognized ALSs" and "RALOs",
> which had to sign a MoU with ICANN, were created. To compensate At Large
> for the loss of the nine voting directors, they got five seats in the
> NomCom. It was intended, that the NomCom will select directors which
> represent users/civil society.
>
>
>
> 5. After the reform was fixed into the new bylaws a lot of big supporters
> of the At Large, Election and Cyberdemocracy concept distanced themselves
> more or less from ICANN. Supporters of the new ALAC did not really
> represent anymore the big civil society NGOs. ALAC became something like a
> "Champions League without Champions". A nunber of civil society
> organisation moved within ICANN to the Non-Commercial User Organisation
> (NCUC), a constituency iwthin the GNSO. However, the RALOs were formed, the
> number of ALSs were growing and over the years, ALAC returned to became
> again a more recognized player in the ICANN family. The call for ALAC
> voting directors came back and culminated into the call for holding an "At
> Large Summit" (ATLAS). ATLAS 1 took place 2008 in Mexico. One sub-committee
> produced a resolution which called for two voting seats for ALAC. The Board
> recognized the legitimacy of such a call, however, the compromise was to
> change the non-voting ALAC liaison in the Board into a Voting Director,
> elected by the ALAC itself.
>
>
>
> 6. This is the situation which stands until now. In my eyes, ATLAS III
> (recently in Montreal) was a missed opportunity to have a more strategic
> oriented discussion about the role and future of At Large (user, civil
> society) in ICANN as a whole. This was also a missed opportunity to ask for
> a second voting seat in the Board. However, it was good to see that NCUC
> and ALAC entered into a more constructive and forward looking dialogue
> which ould lead to a stronger voice of the user/civil society stakeholder
> group within the empowered community.
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> 7.  With the IANA transition and the emergence of the "empowered
> community" we have reached a new situation. However, this is not the end of
> the story. In my eyes there is a need for something like a Work Stream 3
> (WS3) which looks deeper into the existing structure of ICANN and how it
> matches the needs of the 2020s or whether a structural reform is needed to
> adjust it to the new challenges in a post-IANA transition period.  With
> other words, ATLAS IV (2024?) could re-introduce the call for a 2nd AT
> Large voting director.
>
> Best wishes
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>
> Wolfgang
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> Kaili Kan <kankaili at gmail.com> <kankaili at gmail.com> hat am 17. November
> 2019 um 06:06 geschrieben:
>
> As I understand, it was decided at the beginning that ALAC would have two
> seats, but then was reduced to one seat for some reason.
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> Kaili
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> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 4:16 AM Alan Greenberg < alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
> wrote:
>
> Other ACs have a Liaison. But At-Large is thr only part of ICANN that
> appoints full voting Board Members and has only one.
>
> Alan
> --
> Sent from my mobile. Please excuse brevity and typos.
>
> On November 16, 2019 2:57:36 PM EST, Johan Helsingius < julf at julf.com>
> wrote:
>
> On 16-11-19 18:22, Kaili Kan wrote:
>
> Hopefully, sometime in the future At-Large would get its second seat on
> the Board.
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> Do other ACs have more than one seat?
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>  Julf
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