[bestbits] [governance] Call for Participation: Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, 2015

[Barry Shein]

From: parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
>On Monday 18 May 2015 11:02 PM, Barry Shein wrote:
>> You can't have an operational definition of "multistakeholderism"
>> without some process to define it such as enfranchisement in a
>> governance body.
>>
>> One could argue that ICANN has done that via its by-laws. The board of
>> directors recognizes certain groups as groups of enfranchised
>> stakeholders for each group's stated purpose: Address Supporting
>> Organization (ASO), Country-Code Names Supporting Organization
>> (CCNSO), Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), Advisory
>> Committees (AC, such as GAC, SSAC, RSSAC, ALAC), and then other,
>> board, and temporary committees.
>
>Barry, by your account nothing can be more top down than
>multistakeholderism, as we know it, which is exactly the opposite of
>what is sold as its primary value, being bottom up. And this precisely
>sums up what is wrong with multistakeholderism as a new post-democratic
>political device or institution... parminder

Well, not that simple since (most) directors are chosen by the
stakeholder groups. The Nominating Committee* is composed of several
non-voting liaisons plus voting delegates from the GNSO, specifically
one from the Registries Stakeholder Group, one from the Registry SG,
two from the business constituency, and so on (ccNSO, etc), all
detailed in Article VII of the ICANN by-laws.

  https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#VII

So the composite groups (GNSO and SGs, etc) get to choose their
masters. Plus some directors are chosen by supporting organizations
such as the ASO, IETF, etc by their own process.

I suppose a further analysis would be how those individuals who end up
on the Nominating Committee are selected, etc.

* A bit of a misnomer, they don't nominate really in the sense that
some other process actually chooses directors, the Nominating
Committee selects directors.

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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