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Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote:
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Let me add one point to the discussion.
I have more and more problems with the terminology "oversight". </pre>
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Bankers in the US also had the same problem :). Sadly, those in
political offices who need to know and judge better and are entrusted
responsibility for ensuring public interest succumbed to their spin. <br>
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<pre wrap=""> Oversight implies that there is somebody with a final authority, it implies a master-slave relationship.</pre>
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It is the public interest - private interest relationship. Your
master-slave analogy is completely false and misleading. <br>
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<pre wrap=""> Is this what the community wants to have? Who would be the master? </pre>
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The master, if you intend to keep using the term, is and will be public
interest defined by our social and political arrangements (in their
continuous evolution, no doubt).<br>
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<pre wrap="">An "Accountability framework" is much better. It is interactive and allows a distributed system where accountability /(and certain degree of oversight) comes via diverse contractual arrangements among the parties directly involved in a special subject.</pre>
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Bill's email of a few days back describes an exchange in an ICANN
meeting which captures beautifully the meaning of policy vis a vis
contract making and public interest. It also capture the understandable
recalcitrance of certain vested interests to not see this difference. I
quote Bill's email<br>
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"... during the <span class="Apple-style-span"
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class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="white-space: normal;"> Joint AC/SO meeting </span></font><span
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style="font-family: Arial; white-space: normal;">Mexico
City. When panelists were asked by the moderator to describe how they
see policy development processes, a leading member of the
business constituency and of the GNSO Council replied that policy was
about making better contracts, full stop, a view that was echoed by
others. In response, Bertrand suggested that policy was about advancing
the global public interest, to which some others replied that they
didn't know what the term could really mean. "<br>
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parminder <br>
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<pre wrap=""> With other words: No "one oversight for the whole ICANN" but various accontable mechanisms for various ICANN functions.
Wolfgang
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