[governance] Speakers for IGF - ideas?

[Kieren McCarthy]

In relation to this comment from, I think, McTim:

> In short, there is nothing "threatening the Internet Community",
> that's rhetoric coming from folk unwilling to join the process that
> they complain is "captured".  If CS feels strongly enough about this,
> there is only one way to reverse this "capture", and that is to join
> the Internet community fora.


We're talking about ICANN of course.

Can I just say from my position as general manager of public participation
that ICANN is indeed open and I am doing all I can to make it so that
participation by all is easy, simple and, most importantly, effective.

I am beefing up the public comment process
(http://www.icann.org/public_comment/); participation in meetings is
possible in person or online; what ICANN is doing and will be doing is
compiled and released in the form of newsletters (there will be a big, long
and slightly boring newsletter out hopefully this week that covers each
policy point in term, with full links).

ICANN is increasingly using online surveys to improve and simplify feedback.
I will run one very soon that asks the community what info they want and how
they want it.

There is an ICANN participation site (http://public.icann.org/) where you
are actively encouraged to put up your thoughts - it is an open and highly
interactive community site specially designed to raise and thrash out
issues. Responses on the public participation site and to the ICANN blog are
read and I always do my best to get answers to people that raise useful
questions.

The system is wide open for participation. And this is the most important
part -- the decisions are made by those that turn up. If people do
participate and then claim they are being ignored or dealt with unfairly, I
will take that very seriously and sort the situation out. But I've not see
even a whisper of that. 

At this very moment, three of the biggest areas of complaint have public
comment periods open on them: domain tasting; changes to the RAA to sort out
the domain registering system; and reform of the Nominating Committee.

These are the mechanisms by which you can have real and lasting change on
the way this part of the Internet works. 

Time spent arguing for a fantasy new body to be developed to deal with these
issues, in the mistaken belief that somehow a new solution will work any
better, is to my mind a waste of time and energy. 

Why not consider spending just a little of that time interacting in a
meaningful way with the system that actually will make these decisions, with
or without you?



Incidentally, do we know if the MAG agreed to make minutes of its meetings
public? 




Kieren

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