ICANN Board Spurns Democratic Elections 115
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)."
Name change in the offing? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Whatever (Score:4, Funny)
No...that's why we have the Supreme Court!
dot-what dot-are dot-they dot-thinking (Score:3, Funny)
I have some proposals:
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What do you think? Will you elect me to the ICANN board?
So, how long... (Score:3, Funny)
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
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It's dot-biz dot-per dot-com CRASH
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They!
They say PAAAAY-OH
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