[governance] Reinstate the Vote

[Kieren McCarthy]

> To support democracy in ICANN about all you can do now is: 
> * provide input to ICANN's At Large AC review process, which will 
> be starting soon 
> * Make comments in the US Government's February proceeding
> * if you have lots of time to wast^^ spare, get involved in ICANN at 
> large itself and advocate that position.



Well, if your whole reason to get involved in ICANN is to try to impose on
the organisation some personal notion of democracy, then I have to admit
there are pretty limited routes.

It is also fairly difficult to discuss, for example, the global economic
impact of the Internet within ICANN's processes.


If however you are involved in ICANN because you want the expansion of the
Internet's IP address space and domain name system to work in the best
interests of all its users now and into the future, then you will find a
multitude of routes open, available and highly effective.

Moreover, if learning about how the Internet works in order to provide
meaningful input on how those systems need to be built into the future is
seen as being "a waste of time", then you really are in the wrong place.




Kieren






-----Original Message-----
From: Milton L Mueller [mailto:mueller at syr.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 6:19 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; yehudakatz at mailinator.com
Subject: RE: [governance] Reinstate the Vote

Yehuda:
It is good to see your support for this very simple and basic form of
accountability, which ICANN abandoned in 2000 after the party slate lost the
election in the US and Europe.

This form of public input is far more meaningful than the ALAC, which
requires people to invest hundreds of hours creating and maintaining
organizations which is simply not economically viable given the small stakes
individual internet users have in domain name issues.

To support democracy in ICANN about all you can do now is: 
* provide input to ICANN's At Large AC review process, which will be
starting soon 
* Make comments in the US Government's February proceeding
* if you have lots of time to wast^^ spare, get involved in ICANN at large
itself and advocate that position. 



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