[governance] Assessing the ICANN JPA

[Lee McKnight]

Suresh,

The DoC influence via the JPA has usually been subtle, and limited, and
yep, has sometimes been beneficial.  So yeah it has been exercised, but
rarely adevrtised. And it's not black and white. 

But all in all it is time to move on, I agree with Milton.  Will be
interesting to see what comes next!

Lee

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>>> suresh at hserus.net 01/18/08 8:23 PM >>>
Milton L Mueller [18/01/08 13:02 -0500]:
>
>>So, given that, what difference does it make if the 
>>JPA exists or is removed?
>
>Not sure how seriously to take this question. The answer is that JPA
>gives one agency of the US government (The Commerce Dept) the ability
to
>set priorities and policy objectives for ICANN. 

Not that they have meaningfully exercised it, that you'd notice

And if it is industry lobbyist driven, AND icann is also, as you keep
alleging, industry lobbyist driven, I can't see where it makes one whit
of
difference.

Can't operate in a power vacuum you know. 

1. USG - won't (and can't) let up control

2. The UN - lots of people dont seem to want that, lots of governments
do,
the USG doesnt. So probably the USG stays - possession = 9/10ths of the
law
etc etc

3. Civil society, caucuses etc etc - try getting some form of actual
consensus first. And then keep trying to get consensus for everything
starting from indenting for paperclips and printer paper.

	srs
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