<p>Many thanks to both Martin for his valuable information (BTW : who were our African fellows ? Already in Baku ?) and Parminder for its contextualization and -as usual- his complementary comments.</p>
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<p>warm regards</p>
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<p>Jean-Louis Fullsack<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><br /></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Friday 12 October 2012 10:32 AM, Martin McOsieno wrote:<br />></div>
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<br />> <span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />> 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 </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">world of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">MSism . <br />> <br />> 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 />> <br />> This is what the outgoing CEO of ICANN had to say<br />> </span>
<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 coordinate independently?</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: 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> <br />> <br />> 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> .<br />> <br />> 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 />> <br />> parminder </span><br />>
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