[At-Large] Fwd: [governance] EC recommends a "G12" for IG

[Patrick Vande Walle]

On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:07:16 +1200 (MAGST), Franck Martin
<franck.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> And what is wrong with the GAC? 

>From my personal perspective, the GAC lacks authority and, in a certain
way, credibility. Depending how important ICANN is considered under the
local political context, some governments will send senior officials. Some
will send junior officials. Some come from the telecoms ministry, some from
the economy ministry or foreign affairs, some from the telecom regulation
authority. Some have a well defined political agenda, others only a tourism
agenda. 

IMHO, the GAC crowd is too large and heterogeneous to come up with a
clearly defined policy. At one stage, we need limited number of serious
high level diplomats. Now, how they are chosen is a different matter. And a
very scary one I do not wish to solve. 

Patrick
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