Re: [icann-eu] Good ICANN news?

["Roberto Gaetano" <roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com>]

Marc,

>
>It looks like one of the bodies of ICANN, the GA (=general assembly) of
>the DNSO, has become more open. It has just elected a supporter of
>alternative TLDs as its vice-chair: the Australian Patrick Corliss, one of
>the members of the initial board of the TLDA, an association for
>'alternative' (non-ICANN) TLDs, like .GOD, .FAQ and .BOFH, which are not
>controlled by big companies.


I have some doubts about the statement of the GA becoming "more" open.
The GA, being an open body, reflects the opinions of the people that 
participate, that can be different from ICANN's "official" POV. But this has 
been true all along. The fact that the previous Chairpersons were more 
"mainstream ICANN" is not a consequence of the previous "closeness" of the 
GA, but simply about the opinions of the members (or maybe the composition 
of the membership) at the time of the past election.

Would the European AtLarge Membership be less or more open if it elects 
Jeanette (or some telco person) rather than Andy?.

My second remark is that the characterization of Partick being a TLDA 
officer, althoug undeniable fact, might not be the main reason for his 
election. In fact, if you see his statement of acceptance and background 
information at 
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-nominations/Arc01/msg00016.html, TLDA is 
not even mentioned. It was disclosed on the GA list, but the fact is that it 
has never been included in the candidate profile, and the people that vote 
and are not subscribers of the GA list might not have even be aware of this.

This to say that Patrick is an excellent candidate, and will do a great job 
as AltChair, including to bring the GA to more "openness" if this is 
possible, but this might be not strictly correlated to his opinion and work 
for alternate roots.

>
>The Names Council still has to approve this election of Corliss.
>Unfortunately there weren't enough member attending its teleconference
>today. So we will have to wait for a vote by email to be 100% sure.

I am not expecting any surprise.
The vote taken at the council among the people present was consensus for the 
elected candidates (incidentally, if you wonder who is the elected chair, it 
is Danny Younger, while Jonathan Weinberg has withdrawn from the election). 
This included some 14-15 votes, including proxies. The problem was that only 
8 people (less than 50%) were attending the call.


>
>So far the good news. Now the bad: the GA has not much influence, let
>alone any power. Still, it is a start.

The two things may be connected.
Unfortunately, it might not be given the chance to "influence" *because* it 
is an open body :<(.

Regards
Roberto
(former GA Chair)


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