[governance] About statement to ICANN/GAC

[Hervé Le Crosnier]

	Good morning,

	I'm not able to write twenty mails a day, so
	it's hard to be on this list. But i want to
	add my view on behalf Izumi and Bill intents
	that the Draft statement, as proposed by Milton,
	was not, as such, a "civil society statement".

	First, I don't believe it's a question of
	censorship. There's money to do with new
	gTLD. Final point. For example, any big player
	have to buy again a .xxx to avoid cybersquatting.

	So the problem is not only who decide
	to agree when someone is championing a new gTLD,
	but the fact that all the money made by this
	new gTLD will not be used to fullfill a financing
	mechanism, for example to bridge digital divide.

	It's not a transparent model of agreement, but
	a political model of regulation.

	Second, I can't let say as Milton that there should
	be equal representation for governement and civil
	society. Even when I don't agree with elected ones,
	and it's often the case, they are elected, more or
	less freely. Political freedom is a very tough question,
	i agree we need to get election process more democratic,
	with expression of minorities, with equal representation
	into the medias for any participants... but the legitimacy
	of government is upon their election. It's also true for
	local government and cities.

	The legitimacy of Civil society is upon its capacity
	to gain expertise through action, to contract new alliances
	between fractions of population (most notably with
	the poor and defavorised people) and to be and
	experimental field for new social constructs.

	Those two legitimacies are not on the same level.
	And this is also different if we look at the way
	CS get it's own representatives. Number of mails ?
	Election ? No.. expertise, influence, capacity to
	build consensus...

	I think we have to be aware of those differences. I fear
	auto-proclammed CS representation as much as I fear
	elected governments trying to impose their views over
	those who fail, even if failure is only a small percentage
	of voters.

	Consensus building, linking, social care and determination
	are key factors for representatives of CS in the WSIS
	process. Please don't put it down by a petition which
	is not the center of our action.

Hervé Le Crosnier


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