[governance] Upcoming OC meeting in Geneva May 13: IGC agenda?

Jeanette Hofmann jeanette at wzb.eu
Thu May 7 07:14:10 EDT 2009



McTim wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wzb.eu> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> it seems obvious that from a civil society point of view, we would not be
>> happy about replacing a unilateral oversight model by a multilateral
>> equivalent.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> The questions that bothers me is
>> 1. how a multi-stakeholder model could still have some teeth (non-state
>> actors usually lack the authority for binding decisions)
>> 2. how a multi-stakeholder model could still be independent of ICANN. I am
>> sure ICANN would try to be part of the body supposed to oversee ICANN.
>> Within a multi-stakeholder framework, I don't see on what grounds this could
>> be prevented.
> 
> Won't CS have the most oversight over ICANN by electing as many CS
> reps on the ICANN BoD as is possible?  That's the model I prefer!

No, I think that any organization with regulatory authority needs 
external oversight.
jeanette
> 
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