ICANN Stacks Board with Non-Critical Appointees

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.

Comments

The choices suck.

[macshune]

How can a bunch of rich-ass business aristocrats help promote a system that is used by peasants?


Would you test a dog's receptiveness to dogfood on a cat?


Would you do market research for 2 Fast 2 Furious at a Senior's Home?

EU

[sjanich]

ICANN is an interesting study in how a ruling regime can usurp a democratic institution and turn it into an autarchy.

Think of it as a preview of how the EU will work under their forthcoming constitution.

not alternatives, moron

[dh003i]

OpenNIC is not an alternative. An alternative means it does something different.

True, OpenNIC operates much different than ICANN.

However, OpenNIC has decided to be consistent with ICANN (aside from .biz, where ICANN hypocritically introduced inconsistencies). If ICANN steals fuck-you-ICANN-motherfuckers.com from an ICANN-critic and gives it to an ICANN-supporter, OpenNIC will not do anything about that. They will not have that domain name assigned to it's rightful owner.

OpenNIC should disparge from ICANN when ICANN has done the wrong thing (which is almost 99% of the time, when there is a domain name dispute).