Re: [ga] Re: Election of ICANN Board

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I meant Vittorio, not Roberto, sorry.

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From: "Vittorio Bertola" <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Roberto Gaetano" <ploki_xyz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 10:08 AM
Subject: [ga] Re: Election of ICANN Board


> Roberto Gaetano ha scritto:
> > 
> > I wanted to stay out of this discussion, but maybe better to give my 
> > thoughts.
> 
> I think I made my opinions on the 2000 elections quite clear in the past.
> 
> However, apart from any selection mechanism one might want to establish, 
> we do need some kind of clearer and more direct representation of 
> registrants and users in the ICANN Board. I am happy to see a wave of 
> new Directors, appointed by the Nomcom, who have the public interest in 
> mind (and partly, I take it as a result of our struggle to have a 
> significant representation of the At Large in the Nomcom), but there 
> needs to be a mechanism to ensure that this will happen also in the 
> future, especially if the chain of external checks over ICANN is going 
> to be weakened.
> 
> I am not convinced that "voting by paying" is sufficient. The interest 
> of registrants is a good approximation of the general public interest, 
> but it does not always coincide with the interest of the average 
> Internet user. Moreover, not all parts of the Internet and of the world 
> have the same buying power, and the same awareness of how this market 
> works and how to influence it through consumer choices (there are parts 
> of the world where the very concepts of "consumerism" and "consumer 
> rights" are practically unknown, and everything relies on regulation). 
> And finally, this is a regulated market, where there are dominant or 
> monopoly positions, some of which (e.g. the registry) cannot be avoided; 
> not everything can be influenced by consumer choices.
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