[NA-Discuss] approval of Ombudsman?

[Edward Hasbrouck]

A mysterious item has appeared on the Board meeting page in the agenda for 
the 6 March 2009 Board meeting in Mexico City: "Approval of Ombudsman". 

I suspect this means that ICANN has finally noticed from my recent 
comments on the abolition of the Reconsideration Committee that they have 
never appointed an Ombudsman, and have thus been in violation of their 
Bylaws. I don't know why they have finally noticed or decided to act:

http://forum.icann.org/lists/recon-bylaws-revision/msg00001.html

There is no formal proposal yet posted for the appointment of an 
Ombudsman.

In any event, the (illegal) "incumbent" is clearly disqualified:

http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001196.html

It's apparently now time for the community, or would-be candidates 
themselves, to put forward nominations for the position of ICANN Ombudsman 
-- if you can figure out the correct point of contact for such 
nominations.  It would seem that the choice of Ombudsman would be 
especially important to individual Internet users, and thus to ALS's and 
ALAC.  

I pointed out the failure to have a properly appointed Ombudsman in 2007:

http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg06893.html

I have more comments on this at ICANNwatch:

http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/24/0023205


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