Re: [ALSC-Forum] Constructive improvements

[Jeff Williams]

Joop and all stakeholders or interested parties,

  See my vote below.  I will pass this one to all of our IEGRoup members.
However I can predict that this supposed improvement will
not be excepted by a wide margin by our members.

Joop Teernstra wrote:

> 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
> [x] I would not support this
>
> --Joop

Regards,

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