[governance] .xxx. igc and igf

[Carlos Afonso]

I would like to reinforce Vittorio's clarification. In a couple of years 
of involvement with NCUC, for example, I found that lack of interest 
from NGOs worldwide in getting involved is impressive, including some of 
those which are highly critical of an structure they, curiously, do not 
want to know from the inside.

If an organization cannot qualify as an association of users and join 
ALAC, it can join NCUC (provided it is a non-profit, non-business 
oriented organization). Both structures provide for quite reasonable 
participation mechanisms via the Net, specially suitable for the case of 
a majority of entities which will have difficulty in physically joining 
the ICANN caravan moving around the world.

frt rgds

--c.a.

Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> Parminder ha scritto:
>> (2)     Call for a forum within IGF to discuss ICANN – to have ICANN 
>> interface with and be accountable to the many constituencies (which by 
>> far makes the majority of the world’s population) which cant access 
>> its present structures.
> 
> Just for clarification - which are the "many constituencies that can't 
> access its present structures"? There are at least a couple of places 
> where civil society groups can become involved in ICANN.
> 
> I think that it might be more productive to actually involve more CS 
> folks in ICANN, than just try to discuss ICANN at the IGF (even if you 
> succeeded in winning the resistence to that, what would happen after the 
> discussion? I really don't see feasible any political scenario in which 
> ICANN would take directions from the IGF.). At the last ICANN meeting, 
> between known faces scattered in corridors, there were talks of a fixed 
> civil society meeting on the last day of every ICANN meeting - that 
> might be a good point to start, for example.

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Carlos A. Afonso
diretor de planejamento
Rede de Informações para o Terceiro Setor - Rits
http://www.rits.org.br
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