AW: AW: [governance] JPA

["Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"]

Thanks Parminder
 
Good points. However my main point is to discuss (and develop) a mechanism which does not fall back into 20th century policy understanding. 
 
w
 

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Von: Parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net]
Gesendet: Mi 27.05.2009 13:50
An: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Kleinwächter, Wolfgang
Cc: Jeanette Hofmann; Ian Peter; Willie Currie
Betreff: Re: AW: [governance] JPA




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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