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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Friday 12 October 2012 10:32 AM,
Martin McOsieno wrote:<br>
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style="font-size:12.0pt">Interesting story of the never
ending ICANN Conflict of Interest. This time on .africa?<br>
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But isnt the problem of conflict of interest structural to
multistakeholder (MS) governance (not multistakeholder policy
inputs, but actual governance) because MS governance is about
those who have interest (or stake) being part of decision making
processes. ICANN board and its various decision making committees,
for instance, are full of people from the domain name industry, an
industry that ICANN is supposed to regulate. Could one, coming
from an old fashioned democratic tradition, even think of US's
Federal Communications Commission or Telecom Regulatory Authority
of India having a rep from Verizon or Airtel respectively! No,
certainly not, it would be unthinkable. But not so in the ICANN's
</font><font face="Verdana">world of </font><font face="Verdana">MSism
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Consequently most conflict of interest talk at ICANN is window
dressing, when the going, and the press, becomes too blatantly
bad, as in the case of their former Chairman's misadventures.
Otherwise, in the game as usual it is interested parties laying
global CIR policies all the way, and the public or the supposed
reps of the public sit in the gallery and clap enthusiastically
about the untold wonders of MSism.<br>
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This is what the outgoing CEO of ICANN had to say<br>
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<blockquote>“Icann must place commercial and financial interests in
their appropriate context,” said Mr. Beckstrom, who is scheduled
to step down from his post in July. “How can it do this if all top
leadership is from the very domain-name industry it is supposed to
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<font face="Verdana"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/technology/private-fight-at-internet-naming-firm-goes-public.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1332165645-IV28j+gNERC8I8kD5rURmA">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/technology/private-fight-at-internet-naming-firm-goes-public.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1332165645-IV28j+gNERC8I8kD5rURmA</a>
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See some examples of an endemic of conflicts of interest in ICANN
at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=1072&doc_id=240923">http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=1072&doc_id=240923</a>
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Many of you may not have great positive thoughts about the
democratic system of governance in India, but I can assure you
that if any governmental/policy organisation in India approached
anywhere near the conflict of interest mess that ICANN is, it
would take one public interest litigation to the high court or
supreme court to get it folded up in a matter of days, even if the
government itself does not fold it up (which too I am sure it
would do on its own).<br>
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parminder </font><br>
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