[governance] oversight

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

I don't for a second pretend that it doesn't exist.  In fact I  
strongly object to the political oversight that exists.

What i contend is that the dichotomy between US or all nations for  
oversight is the wrong issue.  I don't think there should be polical  
oversight and I believe that the original intention of the MOU was to  
eventually evolve to a point where therre would no longer be  
political oversight.  And that is what I believe the goal should remain.

In other words, I believe Civil Society should not spend its energy  
arguing for multilateral oversight, but rather should be arguing for  
replacing oversight with an fully independent ICANN with appeals and  
auditing mechanisms.  I do not understand why we would fight to go  
from one wrong (US control) to another wrong (multilateral  
international control or inter-governmental control).

To go one step further.  While I am against oversight of any sort, if  
there were to be oversight, the only sort that would be acceptable  
would be fully multistakeholder oversight.  And even if I believed in  
external oversight, I would not believe that this could be achieved  
at this point in time.

a.

On 25 okt 2005, at 10.53, Milton Mueller wrote:

>
>
>>>> Bertrand de La Chapelle <bdelachapelle at gmail.com> 10/24/2005 11:17
>>>>
> AM >>>
>
>> In any case, there is no reason, within the ICANN framework to do
>>
> more than
>
>> involve governments as peers : no legitimacy for an oversight  
>> role. If
>>
> there
>
>> is a need for an oversight, it should be multi-stakeholder.
>>
>
> Bertrand: both you and Avri overlook the importance of the ICANN MoU
> with the US Department of Commerce. That IS oversight, of an extensive
> sort. So political oversight exists. Let's not pretend that it  
> doesn't.
>
>
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