Re: [ICANN-EU] Horizontal organization

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>]

On 2000-08-21 15:28:08 +0200, Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> This is basically what I thought. We need to start right now, and
> there must be some way to select the members of this regional At
> Large council, because otherwise it would not have any
> credibility, and it would just be a self-nominated group of
> individuals. This is why I think that requiring some proven level
> of support in the membership is a key to make this concept work.

I'm not sure that the N best-placed people from the current
pre-election (or from the actual election) are necessarily more
credible.  What about persons who may have considered running for a
place on the ballot, but prefered not to do this since they
considered other candidates to have larger chances?  What about
those who have stepped back in favor of other candidates?

That's why, instead of a "self-appointed" body, I still suggest an
"open for all" round.  Note that I don't doubt that the presence of
the candidates, and the fact that a possible director will
communicate to such a round (ok, I'm dreaming ;->) will lend some
credibility to it.  Closing the "council" _now_ would take quite
some credibility away.

> Then, this board, cooperating with the Director, should start to
> think at better ways to self-organize, and also to a proposal to
> be submitted to ICANN for his study on At Large membership. It
> should also set up the general and announcement mailing lists or
> newsgroups as we are discussing here.

Sorry, but this should _absolutely_ _not_ be the job of any closed
"board".  I can obviously accept the concept that some board may
have to be installed in order to communicate and translate opinions
and arguments between non-English and English-speaking groups. That
is, some kind of board may be helpful to evaluate and summarize what
comes from the community.

However, I still believe that drafting of actual concepts and
suggestions should be done in the open, and in a process open to the
general public.

If we really want to create written concepts intended for
publication, I suggest we should mimic the essentials of the IETF WG
process, with drafts, and some final, consensus-supported document.

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Thomas Roessler                         <roessler@does-not-exist.org>