[At-Large] ICANN Board Nomination
Karl Auerbach
karl at cavebear.com
Fri Aug 27 09:17:50 UTC 2010
On 08/26/2010 09:43 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
> If ICANN wants to expand the pool of board members to include people
> outside those two categories, it either needs to drastically slash the
> amount of time it asks of board members
The best way to do that would be for ICANN to reconsider its role as
regulatory body over economic and social matters and pick up its
self-described role as a mere coordinator of matters reasonably relevant
to technical stability of DNS name resolution.
When I was on the board (2003 time frame) a couple of us chatted about
how much it cost to be on the board. The rough number was that we were
losing roughly $300,000 per year in terms of lost direct income and lost
opportunity income. The ratio of direct/opportunity loss varied
significantly by individual.
The computed cost was roughly proportional to the degree of engagement -
passive members who were mainly "goers" (i.e. did little more than
attend meetings) had lower costs. More active members ("doers") had
significantly higher costs.
It's been my observation that ICANN needs more "doer" directors than
"goer" directors.
One method of compensating directors would not be to pay them directly
but, rather, for ICANN to provide a fund for each director that could be
drawn upon to cover certain well defined (and limited) costs - such as
clerical support or some coverage of independent legal or accounting advice.
--karl--
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