[governance] Fwd: [igf_members] MAG Renewal

[Kerry Brown]

+1 There are a lot of differing viewpoints at an ICANN meeting. If you
only stay in one constituency you may come away with a distorted
perception of what the community thinks of an issue.

Kerry Brown

On 2013-05-15 12:26 PM, "Keith Davidson" <keith at internetnz.net.nz> wrote:

>On 16/05/2013 6:46 a.m., Roland Perry wrote:
>> In message <5193BAD9.1010109 at internetnz.net.nz>, at 04:42:01 on Thu, 16
>> May 2013, Keith Davidson <keith at internetnz.net.nz> writes
>>> ICANN processes would be more functional if ICANN used an issues based
>>> approach rather than the current constituency based approach to its
>>> meetings and its work.
>>
>> Perhaps an inevitable consequence of being "multi-stakeholder" and hence
>> having meetings specifically for each stakeholder group.
>
>ICANN was originally established on a constituency basis, the dNSO, GAC,
>At Large etc, and has persisted with this model. Now that ICANN has
>matured significantly (but potentially nothing more than an acne laden
>adolescent), the constituency model is really only of use in the
>methodology to select / recruit / appoint that constituency's
>representative(s) to the ICANN Board.
>
>So perhaps the idea of coming into an ICANN meeting for day 1 and
>leaving on day 5 from *your* constituency, you could spend days 2 - 4 in
>multistakeholder rooms discussing issues with all affected parties,
>rather than purely with your peers - this would help all participants
>appreciate the colour and depth of opinion on issues, and therefore lead
>to more inclusive, transparent and consensus based decisions?
>
>Cheers
>
>Keith
>


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