Re: [ICANN-EU] Re: European At Large Council

["Jeanette Hofmann" <jeanette@medea.wz-berlin.de>]

Giorgio,

> If I were a director I will prefer to have a limited number of people to
> deal with 

Why?
Of course, there may always be a trade-off between efficiency and 
democracy. However, in this case even more than in others, the path 
is the goal. If we fail to set up an open consens-building process 
among the at-large members (and those who wish to join!) we should 
forget about the whole effort to democratize ICANN. 
I truely believe that legitimicy will only be gained by low thresholds for 
participation. Everybody willing to contribute should be welcome. 
Restrictions should be confined to the form (and, perhaps, the 
frequency) of contributions. 

for stay informed on sub-regional issues (where the boundary
> is the country) 

IMHO the at-large mailing lists should be less about informing the 
director but rather about creating some sort of working group.
Also, I am not sure whether geo-political boundaries are that important 
for the issues we have to deal with. Generally speaking, it makes no 
sense to me to reproduce the political order of Europe if we have a 
chance to ignore or transform it. Admittedly, this might be a very 
german perspective ;-)


 Tasks of these
> members should be to collect issues,hints,opinions from a wider audience
> in their own country by promoting public discussion on relevant topics
> topics by ML or any other mean and summarize it for director 

IMHO this would be even more hierarchical as ICANN functions today. 




> Current ICANN concept about 'representativity' is amount of endorsements
> received and Nom-Com nomination so I think we should stay on this
> concept at the moment.

To quote Alexander,

> But I agree with Thomas -- this 'pre-election' is about finding
> a suitable candidate for a Director. I would not like a
> parliament consisting only of people who tried to become Prime
> Minister...

jeanette