[governance] "Oversight"

[Milton L Mueller]

Obsoleted by events? Surely you are joking.

The article came out when the AoC was written, and the AoC has not changed at all since then. The analysis of it - which was not entirely negative - has been proven right on target. 

E.g., there is simply no argument with the fact that the Review teams are "ICANN reviewing itself." 
There is no change in the fact that the Review Team recommendations are just that: advice to the Board, and thus provide no external accountability on the Board. 

The Review Teams, as predicted, are simply reproductions of the existing political complexion of ICANN, and thus voices who are already overrepresented/underrepresented in ICANN are the same in the Review Teams.

The Whois Review Team simply took the US/trademark/large corporation lobby's demand for surveillance of domain name users and made them a permanent part of ICANN. 

Don't get me wrong: as the article said, the AoC was a step forward because it allowed us to get rid of the JPA/MoU and its horrific renewal process, which made ICANN potentially a political plaything in Washington. And it is not a bad idea to have review teams, and some of the review teams have produced good reports. 

But they are not a solution to the accountability issues of ICANN, and they are not the answer to the structural issues being debated here (IANA contract, US control, accountability, GAC, etc.)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch [mailto:apisan at unam.mx]
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:53 PM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Milton L Mueller; 'michael gurstein'
> Subject: RE: [governance] "Oversight"
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> Milton,
> 
> the blog entry from almost three years ago you on which you invite
> comment has mostly been obsoleted by events. Several of them, including
> the actual performance of the reviews, have proven that the fear of
> deviation to top-down is unfounded. The community has proven that it is
> wise and strong enough to avoid it.
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> Desde: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [governance-
> request at lists.igcaucus.org] en nombre de Milton L Mueller
> [mueller at syr.edu] Enviado el: jueves, 14 de junio de 2012 11:00
> Hasta: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; 'michael gurstein'
> Asunto: RE: [governance] "Oversight"
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > I would be very interested if you (or others) could point to more
> > detailed descriptions/analyses of this approach.
> 
> http://www.internetgovernance.org/2009/09/30/taking-a-hard-look-at-the-
> affirmation/
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