Re: [ga] Re: Discussion Draft -- ICANN Reorganization

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Vint and all assembly members,

vint cerf wrote:

> the proposal that stuart made would not put government employees
> on the board but would offer governments an opportunity to choose
> among a slate of candidates developed by a nominating committee.

  Yes this is how I understand it as well Vint.  And that is a violation
of the MoU with respect to representation of choice by the stakeholders.
Governments have had a very checkered history in their choices
of appointments.  People voting for their choices have historically
in most democratic countries usually elect the best person for
the job...

>
>
> The idea is to find the best candidates filling a variety of
> criteria - geographic dispersion, board experience, Internet
> awareness, fund raising ability, appreciation for the wide
> range of interests and opinions among the Internet's constituents,
> etc.

  Yes and it is a wonderful thought, but it is half baked Vint.
"The Internet is for everyone", remember Vint?  >;)  For
instance Vint, how do you adequately measure "Internet Awareness",
or even "Board experience"?  Why would "Board Experience"
be a filter?

>
>
> Looking at various funding possibilities including endowments
> as adjunct or alternative.

 Ah yes, well endowments of any serious size would very likely
overly influence the makeup of the decision makers.  Not a good
thing here Vint...

>
>
> vint
>
> At 02:02 PM 3/17/2002 -0500, DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:
> >I note that Vint Cerf is our liaison to the UN... is he in a position to
> >exert some influence in this regard?  Perhaps we can obtain necessary funding
> >without the need to actually seats governments on the Board of ICANN.  Maybe
> >Vint could comment on this point.
>
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