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

[Maureen Hilyard]

That makes some sense, Roberto, and I don't think that the conflict you
mention is restricted only to the SO-appointed Directors.

Some questions:

   - Therefore, Directors would be independently selected to represent the
   interests of the different communities from within ICANN?
   - What would be the optimum number of ICANN Board members to achieve
   fair representation across ICANN?
   - Would the NomCom making the selection remain in its current
   composition - with GNSO (7) At-Large (5) and one member each from ASO,
   CCNSO, IETF, GAC, RSSAC, SSAC, and the ICANN Board selecting the Chair and
   Chair Elect?




On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 8:18 PM Roberto Gaetano <
mail.roberto.gaetano at gmail.com> wrote:

> At the time of the NomCom Review I posted a comment recommending that the
> NomCom selects all the members of the ICANN Board. The rationale for that
> was that the SO-appointed Directors were in a permanent conflict because
> although they had a fiduciary responsibility to ICANN they were
> nevertheless obliged to follow the interest of their own organization if
> they wanted to be re-elected. We had in the past exemplary cases of
> independence by Directors, but also cases of the contrary.
> There were also other considerations, but at this early stage I just want
> to throw this idea as brainstorming, we can develop it later if other
> people find it worth exploring.
> Cheers,
> R
>
> > On 22.11.2019, at 01:24, Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> wrote:
> >
> > One place to begin thinking about goals is to look at the list of things
> in this ICANN document:
> >
> > http://archive.icann.org/en/meetings/santiago/membership-analysis.htm
> >
> > Another place might be to look at some of the rather mild proposals that
> we made in the BWG (Boston Working Group) submission way back when:
> >
> > https://cavebear.com/archive/bwg/submission-letter.html
> >
> > Personally I'd like a return to the original commitment made during
> ICANN's formation that at least a majority of ICANN board of directors be
> chosen (indirectly or directly) by the community of internet users.
> >
> > It could be illuminating if people here sat down, fired up their hopes
> and imaginations, and set down their vision of what a properly formed
> ICANN, unfettered by the present structure, would be.
> >
> > How those hopes could be achieved is a hard question.
> >
> > The lawyer in me tends to think of means that resemble the fabled use of
> a 2x4 to get the attention of a reluctant mule.
> >
> > Perhaps one might want to coax ICANN to recognize that it is (or at
> least was in year 2000) a membership based public-benefit/non-profit per
> California Law.
> >
> > Another possible means would be to revisit the grounds upon which ICANN
> receives its US Federal tax exemption (501(c)(3)).  It's been years since I
> last looked, but initially it was, if I remember correctly, "to lessen the
> burdens of government" (for the US gov't.)  If that's still the foundation,
> it would be one that is filled with cracks and crumbling.
> >
> > Those might not be good approaches - they might engender a lot of
> resentment (they would certainly engender a lot of legal fees paid by ICANN
> to Jones Day.  ;-)
> >
> >     --karl--
> >
> > On 11/21/19 3:10 PM, bzs at theworld.com wrote:
> >> Perhaps I'm being naive but what seems to me is missing in this
> >> conversation is: By what process might this ship be righted?
> >>
> >> Multiple choice is acceptable.
> >>
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