Re: [ga] ICANN AtLarge

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Karl. What do you think are some good examples of "better" and how can
we get started organizing one of those examples?

Some action is better than no action IMO, so I'd like to see some
suggestions.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] ICANN AtLarge


>
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Dear Fellow GA Members,
> >
> > Considering the recent developments vis a vis Internet Governance, the
US
> > Government and the United Nations, I think it is time for the ICANN
> > AtLarge Membership initiative to be revisited.
>
> The ICANN at-large mechanism is so awful that it ought not be considered
> as a vehicle for anything.
>
> In fact, by using ICANN's at-large structure at all would be to imbue it
> with a legitimacy that it does not deserve and thus setting up to be
> proposed as a model for "at-large" mechanisms in whatever new structures
> are created.
>
> In a few weeks during the year 2000 elections to the ICANN board there
> arose many nascent organizations and mechanisms to facilitate public
> interchange and development of public opinion.  That, with a bit of
> encouragement, could happen again.  There is no need to try to resurrect
> the moribund ICANN At-large to fill the role as the representative of the
> community of internet users.  We can have better.
>
>   --karl--
>
>