[governance] "Oversight"

[Norbert Bollow]

David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:
> Using non-factual horrors a rogue version of the USG could attempt
> to inflict upon the Internet as justification for giving "oversight
> control" (whatever that means) to an undefined UN body is, in my
> view, unhelpful as it distracts from more potentially useful efforts
> in attempting to create a less-US-centric oversight mechanism of
> what ICANN actually does do.

Ok, why don't we leave the kind of scenarios that you describe
as non-factual horrors aside for now (even though some of what
the USG has in fact inflicted on people outside the US are things
where --if these things had not in fact happened-- I would have
described the idea as a non-factual horror that a government which
is democratic and strongly committed to human rights might take
such actions) and discuss oversight mechanisms to guard against
scenarios that you would agree might potentially happen in the
absence of adequate oversight.

What are in your view realistic scenarios that the oversight
function for ICANN should protect us from?

Greetings,
Norbert

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