[ALSC-Forum] Constructive improvements

[Joop Teernstra]

At 20:59 26/10/01 -0700, Mike Roberts wrote:
>   Second, think seriously about constructive improvements in the 
> recommendations of the ALSC.  Nobody cares that you don't like a 
> particular recommendation, they want to know whether you have a better 
> idea, an idea that is good enough to gather the support of a lot of other 
> interested parties that may not share your individual political or social 
> or economic background but are nevertheless interested in the future 
> welfare of ICANN.

1. To accept that for the next 3 years Individual Domain Name Holders 
(*real* individuals, not "contacts") make up the ICANN at large membership.
  For many this will be a huge compromise.

2. To accept that a balance needs to be imposed on the future ICANN Board 
to safeguard abuse of power by the "service producer" side of the 
governance equation.

3. To accept six regional directors and three supra-regional directors, wo 
can come from any region and for whom *all* voters can vote.
Currently, (thinking of candidates like Tiller, Symons or Lessig) I would 
not mind if all these would end up to be North American.

4. To give consideration to candidates and their voters from countries who 
in the current structure can never expect to be elected: (Australia, New 
Zealand and Israel)  and re-structure the geography -based   regional 
division to a more culturally-based one to accommodate them.
( I would propose to give real meaning to the sixth region proposed by the 
ALSC and allow the voters and candidates of Israel to stay out of it 
and  join the North American region, which is more likely to share their 
Internet thinking; likewise, for the Australians and New Zealanders, who 
could never hope to gain a seat in the Asia/Pacific setup, to become part 
of a "European" region.)

[ ] I would be willing to support this as a consensus solution
[ ] I would not support this




--Joop