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ICANN Board Spurns Democratic Elections

Posted by michael on from the masters-of-your-domain dept.

Pelerin writes "At its meeting in Ghana, ICANN has voted against the proposals made in the Final Report on ICANN At-Large Membership, which among other things proposed an At-Large Supporting Organization (ALSO), which would hold elections for At-Large seats on the ICANN board. Membership in ALSO would have been "based on individual domain name holders". In today's resolution ICANN says that it "is not persuaded that global elections are the only or the best means of achieving meaningful public representation or the informed participation of Internet users in the ICANN process" and proceeded to reject the proposals, while at the same time engaging in a bit of double-speak about its action according to dissenting board member Karl Auerbach. It looks like ICANN is leaning towards its presidents' reform proposal which argues that ICANN suffers from "Too Much Process" among other problems, and that seats on the board should be chosen by the board itself, from among nominations submitted by governments and a new Nominating Committee (NomCom)."

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  1. Name change in the offing? by jlowery · · Score: 5, Funny

    From ICANN to UCANT.

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  2. Re:Whatever by Alzheimers · · Score: 4, Funny

    What would you do if the Congress said "general elections are so much trouble - all that counting... We'll just pick our successors from now on..."

    No...that's why we have the Supreme Court!

  3. dot-what dot-are dot-they dot-thinking by phallen · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... any organization that approves TLDs named ".museum", ".pro", and ".aero" needs reform.

    I have some proposals:
    * .minime -- for all mini-clones of people.
    * .geek -- geeks only. Just as clear as ".pro", isn't it?
    * .bomb -- for dot-coms that have folded. Maintaned by ex employees of the company who constantly say "... if the bubble haddn't popped, we would have been HUGE!!!"

    What do you think? Will you elect me to the ICANN board?

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  4. So, how long... by wowbagger · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, how long until the ICANN board starts calling themselves "General this" and "El Presidente that"?

    These are the antics of a banana republic dictator - the same methods should be used to remove them.


    Come mister ICANN
    Tally me domain name
    Alternate root gonna break you down

    It's dot-biz dot-per dot-com CRASH
    Alternate root gonna break you down

    They!
    They say PAAAAY-OH
    Alternate root gonna break you down


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