[governance] Annan to establish international forum on internet governance

[Taran Rampersad]

Veni Markovski wrote:
> At 07:46 AM 03.3.2006 '?.'  -0800, Danny Younger wrote:
>   
>> At the ICANN Board level consensus no longer matters.
>> This attitude renders independent evaluations (such as
>> the GNSO Review being conducted by the London School
>> of Economics) as irrelevant.  The ICANN Board will
>> simply do whatever it wants to do regardless of
>> informed advice or community consensus.
>>     
>
> That's a very brave statement, but I am afraid it's not quite 
> precise. You build asumption on your reading of facts. They can be 
> read differently.
>   
For the record, I agree with Danny (and Vittorio) on this. Certainly, 
explaining it away as 'building assumption on your reading of facts' is 
true, but the argument is easily reversible. ICANN is just as guilty of 
the same at a meta level in aspects of non-technical matters. Giving 
credit for the technical side needs to balance that - I think ICANN has 
been doing a wonderful technical job, but even so it needs to be 
balanced with a 'wonderful' on the building of consensus. This is not a 
criticism of people, this is a criticism of structure as defined by the 
antiquated structures which ICANN has to deal with and be a part of. 
Still, if you want to say that there will be change, one must start 
somewhere.

By the nature of the structure of ICANN, crude estimations are possible 
but implausible, despite the creation of various boards. What I find 
profoundly inadequate are the very boards themselves when ICANN can - if 
it chooses - give every interested party a choice without all the human 
filters in between. It's amazing how distillation can be used to refine 
things such as alcohol, but if you're looking for water and the 
apparatus is set for alcohol, don't be surprised if you get a hangover 
from the clear fluid you drink.

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