[At-Large] It's time to end the failed Ombudsman experiment, was Respectful Online Communication and Behavior

[Sophia B]

Maybe privatisation will solve this failure!  We will have real and full
discourse with the law instead of not-for-profit politicians.!
sb


On 5/12/09, John R. Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
>
>  ICANN's Ombudsman, Frank Fowlie, recently posted a web page on Respectful
>>> Online Communication and Behavior
>>>
>>
>> I must say that I found that to be a rather strange document.
>>
>
> Unfortunately, I don't find it odd at all.  ICANN's Ombudsman, who has
> never had more than a trickle of complaints to justify his position, now
> will be Hall Monitor, or perhaps Head Censor, which will allow him to invent
> cases at will.
>
> It's been clear for years that the Ombudsman experiment is a failure,
> adding neither clarity nor fairness to ICANN's process.  It's long past time
> to delete Article V from the ICANN bylaws and bring the experiment to an
> end.  If ICANN wants to be credible and transparent, it needs fewer, simpler
> processes.
>
> R's,
> John
>
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