Re: [ga] to put an end

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl and all former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

  I for one, could not agree with you more here Karl.  But we as
stakeholders/users must not deny the lessons of history, that is
the history of ICANN, and use those lessons to do better.

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> Speaking as an American, in particular one from California, I really do
> not comprehend the energies and emotions that are coming out in this
> discussion.
>
> Bringing things back to the matter of internet governance - what this
> discussion is (re-)illuminating for me is that we are going to be making
> a lot of mistakes as we try to find the path - no single one of us knows
> enough.
>
> I think we are seeing one such mistake - the hegemony of the US over the
> affairs of ICANN and the internet.
>
> The conclusion that I want to suggest is that, because we are going to
> be making mistakes, because we are going to have misunderstandings based
> on cultural emotions and perceptions, we ought to build into our
> institutions of internet governance a kind of "sunset" provision, that
> these institutions lapse simply by the passage of time, unless we take
> positive action to give extra life span.
>
> For example, might it have been useful had ICANN been born with a five
> year life span unless we (by some measure of "we") agreed to give it
> another five years?
>
> I have fear that the present tendency is in the contrary direction -
> that we are now ossifying the status quo of internet governance when,
> instead, we should be be looking at deeply and asking, without excessive
> allegiance to things past, whether we have done right or whether we
> could do better.
>
>                 --karl--

Regards,

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