[ga] Milton Mueller on ICANN Reform at WSIS Prepcom 2

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Excerpt:

Another solution is to reform ICANN?s internal structure, to make it more accountable to its own stakeholder groups and less self-selecting. Bring back elected members of the Board. Revive the At Large not as a multilayered bureaucracy that puts impossible demands on the time and energy of volunteers with small stakes in the management of domains and addresses, but as a membership right that any individual can exercise when it is important to them.

This is how the At Large was originally conceived. If there were problems with the first round of elections, fix them. Also reform the representational structure of the GNSO ? make it more balanced. One simple and easy way to do that is to permit At Large representatives to vote on the GNSO Council. Another reform is to collapse the business users constituency with the intellectual property constituency, since trademark owners are simply a subset of business users.

http://dcc.syr.edu/miscarticles/MM-Prepcom2.pdf


		
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