Direct decisions by at large members risk to be extremely
time-
consuming and there would be a high risk that not all of the at large
members
had been able to informe themselves well enough before
deciding, as well.Indirect
democracy works well enough, as you can see in Switzerland.
Maybe it should become
possible for at large members to open cyber-
initiatives and if they'd gather
more than 5% of the votes of all at
large members existing, to automatically
hold votations on those
initiatives.
Should the respective initiaves be accepted,
ICANN had to follow
their content. This would be a fair amount of direct cyber-democracy
and again the system is working pretty well in Switzerland already.
But first,
at least 9 or even all of the directors of ICANNs board
of directors must be
elected rather than appointed, in order to get
rid of any cyber-imperialistic
influences that might have established
themselves during recent time.