[governance] ICANN head warns against putting Internet addresses

[Jeanette Hofmann]

   If a
> failure in nimbleness of an organization can be celebrated  as  the 
> epitome of nimbleness by the mouthpiece of that organization, the 
> question of whether that organization is nimble or not pretty much 
> answers itself.
> 
> Perhaps it is simply nimble in its own mind.

Here a quote from my endnote file: "institutional theories in their 
extreme forms define organizations as dramatic enactments of the 
rationalized myths pervading modern societies" (Meyer & Rowan 1977: 
Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony).

ICANN as a dramatic enactment, isn't that a hilarious suggestion?

jeanette
> Cheers
> 
> Subbiah
> 
> 
> 
> Bertrand de La Chapelle wrote:
> 
>> 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 
>> <mailto: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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>> ____________________
>> Bertrand de La Chapelle
>> 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
>>
>> "Le plus beau métier des hommes, c'est d'unir les hommes" Antoine de 
>> Saint Exupéry
>> ("there is no greater mission for humans than uniting humans")
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