WG: AW: [governance] BECKSTROM TO LEAVE ICANN AT END OF HIS TERM

[Milton L Mueller]

> There is an obvious conflict of interest in this context which
> should have been regulated, before, by the ICANN Board or by the ICANN Nominating
> Committee. Failure to do so will lead to additional intrusion by GAC
> or the US.
>

The intrusions of the EU and US have absolutely nothing to do with perceived conflicts of interest, CW. 
As the person largely responsible for giving us the abomination known as the GAC, it should be obvious by now that that model is broken, badly, and that governments do not and cannot function as peers in a multistakeholder environment. It is the height of hypocrisy for you to be invoking "bottom up process" when literally all the actions of the GAC have circumvented, reversed, delayed, stopped or obstructed what little bottom up consensus ICANN manages to develop. And GAC does this not for any public interest concern, but a) at the behest of large corporate trademark interests, and b) to allow governments grab resources for themselves, e.g. geographic names, fake ccTLDs like .eu, etc.) 
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