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ICANN Stacks Board with Non-Critical Appointees

Posted by michael on from the all-pretenses-of-public-input-eliminated dept.

Froomkin writes "ICANN's outgoing dissident Board member, Andy Mueller-Maguhn, has leaked the slate that ICANN's so-called NomCom (actually an appointments committee) has picked. The new public representatives are mostly a mix of incumbent ICANN Board directors who don't rock the boat, corporate executives, and ISOC members. Dissident Andy Mueller-Maguhn got replaced by a former member of the board of Deutsche Telekom. Dissident Karl Auerbach (who had to sue ICANN to get to see its documents) got replaced by the President of the U.S. Council for International Business. At least the Board Squatters are finally going to be history. Details at ICANNWatch." ICANN is an interesting study in how a ruling regime can usurp a democratic institution and turn it into an autarchy.

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  1. Well ... he quit. by sulli · · Score: 3, Informative
    From Andy's comment at ICANN Watch:

    [PS. Someone, I don't know who, nominated me for a Board seat, but I wrote in to say I did not wish to be considered.]

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    sulli
    RTFJ.
  2. Re:Just curious... by Spazmania · · Score: 4, Informative

    where exactly does ICANN derive its' authority from

    The United States Department of Commerce

    http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/ican n- memorandum.htm

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  3. Re:Who's left? by z_gringo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Vinton Cerf

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  4. Well ... by SuperDuG · · Score: 4, Informative
    ... if you don't like it ... don't use it ...

    There are GREAT ALTERNATIVES

    OpenNIC has matured into a rather great truly democratic DNS Registry. I would highly recommend everyone support them. You can still support OpenNIC and have ICANN registeries, well everything except biz, but that's a whole nother can of worms ...

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  5. Re:autocracy by Stradenko · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is it?

    autarchy
    n 1: economic independence as a national policy [syn: autarky]
    2: a political system governed by a single individual [syn: autocracy]
    [ant: democracy]