RE: [ga] Questions for Joe Baptista / Eric Dierker, and why the GA list should be ended

[JFC Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:55 23/09/2007, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
> Karl Auerbach wrote:
> >
> > That's not my memory; but in any case, isn't is rather petty
> > to encapsulate the *only* body in ICANN that is open to
> > individuals to one single subject among the several that ICANN covers?
>
> Well, if the GA was not part of the DNSO it would have been incomprehensible
> why the election of the GA Chair had to be ratified by the Name Council.
> Anyway, to have an ICANN-wide body open to individuals for discussion on
> general items can be misinterpreted as being a membership body, which would
> have unintended legal implications under California law (just my personal
> opinion, IANAL).
Most probably true.

This is why the ICANN-GA Dynamic Coalition seems to be an appropriate 
solution for the ICANN Community Members.
- It would be dedicated to ICANN enough and focus itself on ICANN 
control and advocacy
- It would have its own structure with no tax, and more no financial 
responsibility, being imposed on ICANN
- it could have the appropriate international exposure and 
recognition through the IGF
- it would have its own bylaws permitting a real open polycratic 
debate and recommentations.
- it could welcome Vint Cerf as an independent expert, and many others.

I would propose it to organise as:
- a non-profit incoporated, BoD coopted, secretariat able to be 
transparently subsidised by sponsors.
- a wiki on ICANN related topics.
- a moderated editorial mailing list of this Wiki poceeding on a 
multiconsensus basis (every position has to be documented 
consensually by its supporters who should also try to document 
bridges and interoperability with the other positions).
We have incorporated the ATLARGE non-profit association with Abel two 
years ago. We can use it, or incorporate a new one, or adapt its name 
and purpose as a General Assembly open to every member of the ICANN 
community, understood as the business and persons who are impacted by 
ICANN positions and/or have participated to an ICANN meeting, mailing 
list, constituency, committee.
This can be very quickly (matter of days) set-up.
jfc











> >
> > Global IP address policy is becoming increasingly important
> > as IPv4 addresses become more and more scarce - one can use
> > the internet without a TLD, but one can not use the net
> > without IP addresses.  So if this GA is locked into names,
> > then where is the GA for addresses?  It certainly isn't in
> > the RIRs - those only do regional IP address policy, not global.
>
> It would be an ASO matter. The public mailing list is
> aso-policy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (see http://aso.icann.org/lists/index.html).
>
> Cheers,
> Roberto