Re: Fw: [atlarge-discuss] ALOC Draft 3.0

[Gary Osbourne <gro@direct.ca>]

At 12:41 PM 30/07/02 -0400, James Love wrote:

>  The CIRA has given up 9 seats on their board
>to an at-large

This bears a bit of expansion. An existing board
did not freely decide to give up their seats.
The then newly constituted CIRA knew all along
that they had an initial appointed board and
that there would subsequently be elections (of
course there was once a time one could say that
of ICANN). CIRA's board is made up of twelve
individuals, nine of the positions are elected
by a vote of those who have registered .ca
names, I wouldn't quite class this as an
at-large. The existing board also puts together
a list of suggested candidates and then allows
outside nominations so there is some danger of
capture. One of the remaining board seats is
to represent internet users and I would class
that more as an at-large representative. That
individual is appointed by the board. While
CIRA is far more democratic than ICANN, I
think it could stand improvement.

In at least one other area ICANN could really
learn from CIRA, where the voting membership,
and they are members, that is, the registrants,
appoint the external auditors. They do so via
an online realtime vote during CIRA's annual
general meeting. Compare that to ICANN, I've
recently submitted an article regarding some
audit committee shenanigans to ICANNWatch here:
http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=879&mode=nested&order=1

Perhaps Esther Dyson would like to report to
what, if any, extent she accessed the records.
Seems to me, credibility is important here. -g


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