Re: [ga] RE: issues that are long closed?

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> Other issues, like for instance the direct election of Directors, is closed,
> at least for the foreseeable future.

I consider you an articulate, intelligent, progressive, and far seeing member 
of the ICANN community.

But it saddens me when you write that you do not see the resumption of 
elections for directors.

It is feasible.  The election of year 2000 worked.  It's problems were few and 
would have been readily corrected in another round.  The urban legands about 
impossibility are just that - urban legends.  And indeed, the 2000 elections 
worked despite the active attempts to undermine them by people associated with 
ICANN and who I believe are still still associated with and compensated by ICANN.

The ALAC, despite ICANN cheer leading, ICANN funding, and years of ICANN life 
support has not achieved even a minuscule portion of the internet user buy-in 
that was obtained in a few short months by the year 2000 election.

The only thing standing in the way of resurrection of elections is ICANN's board.

For a public-benefit body, which ICANN is legally defined to be, to eject the 
public so completely as it has done is unconscionable.

		--karl--