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<p>I'm going to be somewhat diverging from the main topic....<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/26/22 8:14 AM, Marita Moll wrote:<br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">And so it is with
ICANN. It exists -- a unique multistakeholder governance
system. Lots of things wrong with it. But it exists. So, for
those who want to, they can keep working at it, keep looking
for improvement, keep challenging the system.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I've long been in
opposition to the "stakeholder" model of governance. I was
horrified when I first saw it </font><font face="Times New
Roman, Times, serif"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">just
after Jon Postel died</font>, and became more horrified
watching Joe Sims of Jones Day ramming it down our collective
throats. In the Boston Working Group proposal for "NewCo" we
tried to mitigate some of the worst aspects.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://cavebear.com/archive/bwg/">https://cavebear.com/archive/bwg/</a> for the Boston Working Group
proposals.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">A lot of our BWG
proposals are still quite relevant, for instance, not putting
the President/CEO into a seat on the board of directors and
moving some ICANN powers into the Articles of Incorporation and
requiring exercise of those powers to be approved by more than
merely the board (in those days that larger body could have been
"the members" but ICANN sank that ship long ago - but it can be,
and ought to be, re-floated.)<br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">My most recent piece
in opposition to stakeholder based systems may be found here:</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Democracy Versus
Stakeholderism -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/stakeholder_sock_puppet/">https://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/stakeholder_sock_puppet/</a><br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> --karl--</font></p>
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