Dear members,
This comment was directed to ERC during the public forum of ICANN.
Regards,
YJ
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YJ Park, Elected panel member of ICANNatlarge.org
I appreciate the Board for incorporating At-Large Advisory Committee after
Bucharest. On the other hand, I also want to ask the Board to remember the
initial promise made by DoC and white paper, 9 Board of directors from
at-large constituency.
Alejandro Pixanty, Chairman of ERC during his presentation placed high
emphasis on the criticality on building "TRUST" with ICANN. However, until
individual users can get more specific answers from the Board to the
At-Large representation, individual users shall have difficulties with
cementing "TRUST" with ICANN and DoC.
After four years' challenge of developing a mechanism to reflect Individual
users' voices into ICANN's decision-making process since ICANN was created
in 1998 in following manner.
Membership Advisory Committee in 1999,
At-Large Study Committee, NAIS, Interim Cordnating Committee in 2000, 2001,
ICANNatlarge.com, At-Large Organizing Committee in 2002,
and recently At-Large Advisory Committee Assistance Group with proposed
At-Large Advisory Committee.
We reached a conclusion that no At-Large Board of Director. Therefore, ICANN
is becoming business association rather than consensus-building coordination
body
In the name of Internet community, ICANN has been trying to include and
listen to ccTLD managers, business groups, Intellectual property groups,
RIRs, even the governments, but Individual users were sidelined without
appropriate representation guarantee. As of 1998, 9 board seats were
guaranteed for Individual users. Now, as of 2002, what individual users are
offered is 5 At-Large representatives on the Nominating Committee together
with other 13 constituencies. no single board seat is not guaranteed for the
individual users.
If I may, on behalf of those who have worked hard on at-large representation
since its beginning, I think we have to admit that such enormous efforts and
energies put forth by many people ended up with failure in the ICANN
process.
However, there are still ongoing efforts such as ICANNatlarge.org to build
At-Large constituency. With limited resources, election of the
representatives of ICANNatlarge.org was conducted in August with hope we can
be heard in ICANN's decision-making process.
Here I would like to propose to the Board first the Board make substantial
efforts continuously to strengthen users voices in the representation and
make sure the At-Large Advisory Committee should establish a bottom-up
decision-making process as it is expected to in consultation with the
existing group.
second, the Board considers forming a committee to reintroduce 9 board
members from at-large constituency in the near future.
Thank you for your attentions and consideration to the proposals.
Please, refer to the web site for further specific comments.
Follow-up question by Karl Auerbach, Lypman Chapman
Comment by Hans, Alejandro
Hans told that there was no commitment about 9 Board of Directors
in the white paper.
Karl clarified the white paper ensured public representation promised
in the Congress by Esther.
Alejandro expressed that the Board doesn't want to revisit 9 Board
of Directors.
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