AW: [governance] ICANN head warns against putting Internet addresses

["Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"]

The discussion never ends. My impression is that structurally the debate is back in the pre-WGIG-time (but in a dialectical way, that means  on a "higher level" with more players, more layers and without a DOC-ICANN-MoU) . 
 
New crowds are discovering as news for them what is known since more than one or two decades and reinventing the wheel by asking (raising) questions which has been already answered hundred times. This keeps the ball rolling, fills news columns and feeds governmental civil servants who can tell their ministers that there is something important which has to be done/observed/developed etc. 
 
just "one cent" from the sidewalk ;-(((:
 
Wolfgang
 
 
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Von: Bertrand de La Chapelle [mailto:bdelachapelle at gmail.com]
Gesendet: Do 27.05.2010 11:06
An: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Ginger Paque
Betreff: Re: [governance] ICANN head warns against putting Internet addresses


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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