Re: [ICANN-EU] Horizontal organization

["Griffini Giorgio" <grigio@mediapoint.it>]

R.Gaetano wrote:

> One thing I would like to add about organization.
> The initial plan of ICANN, as presented in Cairo, was for an "AtLarge 
> Council", elected by the AtLarge Membership. What was bad in that plan was 
> the fact that the election of the AtLarge Directors was performed by the 
> AtLarge Council, therefore not with "direct vote" by the Members.
> BTW, this is similar to the structure of the Supporting Organizations.
> 
> The idea was much opposed, and consequently direct election was introduces.
> But the concept of an AtLarge Council in itself could not be bad.

Yes and I would like to go forward, and there is/was no concept of formal 
'Regional constituency' for @lage members so ICANN had to resort to Nom-
Com and the whole story we know. 
Building such a sort of 'Regional constituency' I think is a good balance on 
keeping the ICANN structure symmetrical (that mean is possibile to apply 
same power and rights limits to any of the involved party) and have a way to 
collect non-strictly bound interests voice (as in SO)  in favor of diversity 
culture.
About on how to form these constituency and the way they will have to bring 
persons to the board (elections, ) I think that given few rules about rights of 
each of the members all other detail may be left (with just a little guidance 
and/or support) to Regional constituency. This will allow, for instance, to 
avoid misunderstanding on the way to run an election leaving each Region 
free to adopt the model is more appropriate for that region and that voters feel 
more comfortable with. This way we will not have to discuss about what the 
word  'nomination' mean as I saw here.
This is the kind of 'delegation' I have in mind ... 

Best Regards 
Giorgio Griffini