[governance] New dot com agreement changes USG-ICANN relationship

[Veni Markovski]

At 07:53 PM 06.12.2006 '?.'Ъ▄Ж  +0100, you wrote:
>On further reflection, we should not glorify 
>intergovernmental processes and institutions. 
>Even if the ITU is more inclusive as far as 
>participation of governments is concerned, we 
>don't know much about balances of powers between 
>governments. And even if there are formal 
>mechanisms of accountability, we don't know whether they are effective.
>
>ICANN is much more transparent than any 
>intergovernmental organization. This is why we 
>can observe its shortcomings on a regular basis. 
>I wouldn't be able to say if closed 
>intergovernmental organizations such as the ITU 
>violate or stretch their own rules more or less 
>than ICANN. What seems safe to say is trust in 
>an organization requires better performance.

Shall I understand your words, that you believe 
while change within ICANN is possible (either 
ways), within the ITU it's not likely to happen? 
As someone who has been dealing with all 
different organizations around ICANN, I've 
reached to the conclusion, that if a change is 
needed, it can be achieved anywhere. However, in 
some cases it's more difficult, and I am not 
particularly sure that sometimes it's worth 
paying the price for that. Perhaps each of us has 
memories from the WSIS and how things happened there.
The major achievement of the ICANN process is 
that it involved right from the beginning the 
business and the civil society. In fact, 
regardless of what people think about the US 
government, it was exactly that very same 
government that let the process start. And today 
the GAC changes are aiming at improving their 
participation within ICANN, not in exluding them, 
or excluding ICANN from the processes. Only 
mutually beneficial cooperation will have success at the end.




Sincerely,
Veni Markovski
http://www.veni.com

check also my blog:
http://blog.veni.com


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