> Given the advantages that the NOMCOM candidates will have including peer recognition
in their own spheres of influence, there is little doubt in my mind that they will
be swept into office regardless of what changes or reforms of the system are proposed
or engineered. This is inevitable and it is as planned by the ICANN board. <I
agree with that part, but who gave the actual board the rights to put these structure
and these rules "as is"?
If it will really be as you describe, then we've got
just another institute claiming themselves to be democratic because of counting 20.000
(or whatever) voting members, without being democratic in any way. When only some
of the board directors can be voted by the membership, and these ones are pre-chosen
by NOMCOM, why go and vote or be a candidate at all?
Why did you register for
the membership, if you think that you cannot really do anything? If it would be really
as you say, then I request that the whole ICANN in their structure must be redesigned
with the members themselves. Then we have to organize ourselves, initiate elections
of representatives, have them discuss, plan and design the whole ICANN, with permanently
opened ears for additional member-calls and ideas, and then try to persuade the actual
board directors to adopt this plan.
As you see, that cannot and will not take place,
so we have to use the (much to short) time we have now, and try to change the nominating
process, so that it will not be, as you have exactly predicted.
Andreas Beer