AW: [governance] JPA

[Parminder]

Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote:
>  
> Let me add one point to the discussion.
>  
> I have more and more problems with the terminology "oversight". 
Bankers in the US also had the same problem :). Sadly, those in 
political offices who need to know and judge better and are entrusted 
responsibility for ensuring public interest succumbed to their spin.


>  Oversight implies that there is somebody with a final authority, it implies a master-slave relationship.
It is the public interest - private interest relationship. Your 
master-slave analogy is completely false and misleading.

>  Is this what the community wants to have? Who would be the master? 
The master, if you intend to keep using the term, is and will be public 
interest defined  by our social and political arrangements (in their 
continuous evolution, no doubt).

> An "Accountability framework" is much better. It is interactive and allows a distributed system where accountability /(and certain degree of oversight) comes via diverse contractual arrangements among the parties directly involved in a special subject.
Bill's email of a few days back describes an exchange in an ICANN 
meeting which captures beautifully  the meaning of policy vis a vis 
contract making and public interest. It also capture the understandable 
recalcitrance of certain vested interests to not see this difference. I 
quote Bill's email

"... during the  Joint AC/SO meeting Mexico City.  When panelists were 
asked by the moderator to describe how they see policy development 
processes, a leading member of the business constituency and of the GNSO 
Council replied that policy was about making better contracts, full 
stop, a view that was echoed by others. In response, Bertrand suggested 
that policy was about advancing the global public interest, to which 
some others replied that they didn't know what the term could really 
mean.  "

parminder


>  With other words: No "one oversight for the whole ICANN" but various accontable mechanisms for various ICANN functions. 
>  
> Wolfgang 
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