[governance] ICANN head warns against putting Internet addresses

[Bertrand de La Chapelle]

ICANN, NIMBLE ???? :-))

Not that replacing it with a UN body would improve things. The challenge is
how to build a more international, more globally accountable and public
interest oriented ICANN, not the mere alternative : either the way ICANN
(dis)functions today or another, even more unappealing option. The AoC paves
a way forward. Will we collectively be able to move in the right direction ?
That is the right question.

B.

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> ICANN head warns against putting Internet addresses under UN control
>
> Posted by Andrew Adams:
>
> This (Canadian) Globe and Mail article includes details of Beckstrom's
> recent
> statements against UN oversight of ICANN.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/38m78m2
>
> Summary: UN oversight would make ICANN "less nimble" according to
> Beckstrom.
>
> My opinion: could ICANN really be any less nimble given how glacial it is
> at
> introducing innovative ideas? Perhaps more international oversight could
> pressure ICANN into prioritising the real needs of users and less the
> concerns of staff which may or may not coincide with user needs.
>
> --
> Professor Andrew A Adams
> Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and
> Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
> Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
>
>
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Délégué Spécial pour la Société de l'Information / Special Envoy for the
Information Society
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes/ French Ministry of Foreign
and European Affairs
Tel : +33 (0)6 11 88 33 32

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Exupéry
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