[governance] ICANN/USG Affirmation of Commitments

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<76f819dd0910030740v206a4661xcd43ea4ae54d2483 at mail.gmail.com>, at 
10:40:20 on Sat, 3 Oct 2009, Paul Lehto <lehto.paul at gmail.com> writes
>Charities can attempt to, sometimes even succeed in acting in the
>public interest.  However, the true public, the only legitimate source
>of political authority, has NO RECOURSE

In the UK we have an organisation called the Charity Commissioners, who 
provide quite a lot of oversight.

>if the charity mistakenly feels that, for example, a private internet 
>will trickle down public benefits and a public internet with rights is 
>undesirable.

Very few charities are operating in the Internet space.

>The bottom line is the shift, of tectonic importance here, where the
>admittedly too narrow and attenuated accountability of the Commerce
>Department/ICANN to the US public purports to be eliminated in favor
>of what ICANN calls "independence."  In turn, "independence" means
>there's ZERO RECOURSE.

That'll be a big disappointment to a lot of people, if true,

>the situation is now much worse because there's no
>accountability to anyone anywhere

What, not even the Review Teams? (The accountability might not be 
perfect, few things are, but they exist).

> and no mechanism to manufacture accountability to the global 
>community. (unless this giveaway and abdication of authority is 
>challenged)

So you don't think the proposed scheme delivers any of that?

R.

>Paul Lehto, Juris Doctor
>On 10/2/09, Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
>> In message
>> <76f819dd0910021037o36cd6b7aj9c8d7454ca116cc2 at mail.gmail.com>, at
>> 13:37:38 on Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Paul Lehto <lehto.paul at gmail.com> writes
>>>Although nonprofits are definitely much more public-interest minded, at
>>>the end of the day no nonprofit can legitimately claim to represent the
>>>PUBLIC INTEREST -- only democratically elected politicians can do that,
>>>and only if they are behaving correctly as well.
>>
>> So you don't think any charities can possibly act in the public
>> interest?
>> --
>> Roland Perry
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>>      governance at lists.cpsr.org
>> To be removed from the list, send any message to:
>>      governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org
>>
>> For all list information and functions, see:
>>      http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance
>>
>
>

-- 
Roland Perry
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.cpsr.org
To be removed from the list, send any message to:
     governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org

For all list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance