[governance] ICANN RFC on its performance

[Karl Auerbach]

Veni Markovski wrote:
> At 22:22 5/13/2007  -0400, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
> 
>> Alas, the language is already there.  You just chose not to implement it.
> 
> Michael, surely Karl could have put this on the Board agenda, when he 
> was there. Did he? What was the outcome of the vote?

By-the-way, I would also recommend that any institution of internet 
governance adopt a rule that imposes a three year period between the 
separation of any Director from the board and any employment, 
consulting, or other relationship between ICANN and that ex-director 
that involves money or any other thing of monetary value.

Would you support such a rule for ICANN?

As for your question:

Andy M-M (the elected director for Europe) and I (the elected director 
for North America) proposed several items to be placed on the agenda. 
However, we were always confronted with some unwritten procedural gambit 
or another that caused our proposed items to never appear.

Since there were no recording and no minutes there is no way that you or 
the internet public could have seen this occurring.

One might peruse my online diary of my activity on the board (see 
http://www.cavebear.com/icann-board/diary/index.htm )and to obtain a 
feel for how futile it was for us even to attempt to propose items.

Moreover I had to burn nearly 18 months of my two year term fighting 
ICANN's attempts to muzzle and silence me that were eventually declared 
by a court to be unlawful.  (See 
http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/DNS_control/ICANN_IANA_IAHC/Auerbach_v_ICANN/ 
)

I might add that we argued for many of these reforms even before ICANN 
was created by NTIA and Jones Day.  See the Boston Working Group 
proposal made to NTIA as an alternative initial structure for ICANN at 
http://www.cavebear.com/bwg/

		--karl--


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