RE: [alac] President's Committee on Strategy, and ICANN legitimacy

["Bret Fausett" <bfausett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm beginning to see the "President's Committee on Strategy" as Paul's
replacement for the ICANN Board. He's hand-picked this pseudo-Board and will
use its recommendations to push the real Board in directions it might not
want to go. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Wendy Seltzer
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 6:20 AM
> To: alac@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [alac] President's Committee on Strategy, and ICANN 
> legitimacy
> 
> In case anyone actually reads the "public" list, I'll take 
> this opportunity to comment that while I am pleased that 
> Pierre Dandjinou will be able to participate in the PSC, I 
> think it shameful that without any further discussion, ALAC's 
> other nominee was not 
> accepted.   Unfortunately, I am unsurprised, as this lack of direct 
> feedback and public participation pervades ICANN.
> 
> Paul Twomey's explanation that "As [we] know the Committee is 
> designed to be a small but consultative group, and it needs 
> to ensure that additions can be made also from other 
> communities," does not excuse the lack of public 
> representation.  The public is not just one element among 
> many Internet stakeholders, it is the citizenry for whose 
> benefit this whole edifice is constructed.  If the public is 
> not well represented through more than just special-interest 
> constituencies, the legitimacy of the whole ICANN enterprise 
> is threatened.
> 
> The question is, does anyone care?
> --Wendy
> 
> --
> Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School 
> Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society 
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
> Chilling Effects: http://www.chillingeffects.org
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