[governance] Drop ALAC altogether??

[Milton L Mueller]

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From: Bertrand de La Chapelle [mailto:bdelachapelle at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 10:45 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Milton L Mueller
Subject: Re: [governance] Drop ALAC altogether??

 

Milton, two questions :

- when you say "non-commercial users" in NCUC, do you still mean "non-commercial domain owners" or "general internet users" ?

The former, as NCUC is currently chartered. NCUC is NOT a substitute for “enfranchising” “general internet users.” 

-      regarding constituencies, you mention their supposed "relatively homogeneous interests" (or something like it). Does that mean that you consider constituencies within ICANN as being a way to structure interest groups ?

Yes. 

-      And does not this lead to the "siloed" approach that I have often described as one of the major limitations in ICANN's PDP (in the gNSO in particular, hence the proposal to move to a working group model) ?

No. Voting, the exercise of authoritative decision making power, must be based in some way on balanced representation. The _development_ of policy, on the other hand, can be more open and flexible and conduicted in working groups. But in the final analysis there must be some kind of authoritative decision making.

By the way, just to have some fun with you in your current incarnation as govt representative, would you say that one-country, one-vote representation in the GAC leads to “major limitations in GAC’s policy development process”? Perhaps GAC working groups should be “open” – especially since the Board seems to pay more attention to them than to the GNSO these days? 


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