Re: [ICANN-EU] ICANNER Squatters

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

> In Yokohama, ICANN staff had prepared a resolution
> that the terms of the 4 interim Directors should be
> extended only by *one* year. This plan was heavily
> criticized at the Public Forum in Yokohama, because 
> cutting down the At Large representation on the Board to 
> only 5 Directors after 2001 was seen as dangerous 
> precedent. A new resolution was prepared so that 
> 9 At Large Directors (5 elected, 4 interim) remain part
> of the Board.

Unfortunately, some of these so-called interim At Large Directors do contend 
against the concept of the At Large Membership. And this is what I find 
scandalous. As interim directors, they have no legitimacy whatsoever to use 
their power as board members against those whose election has been 
delayed.  



> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/yokohama/archive/scribe-icann-071500.html#alm
> http://www.icann.org/minutes/minutes-16jul00.htm#00.52
> 
> Now, Michael Froomkin calls on the interim Directors to
> resign. As usually, ICANN is criticized either way... ;)
> 
> My personal view is that it was more important to have direct 
> elections than to have 9 directors chosen by indirect elections
> in 2000, that's why I think the Cairo Compromise was a good 
> deal. 

While I agree that direct elections are important, I don't see why we have to 
settle for 5 ALM directors for at least another 2 years. There is no direct 
relationship as such between the election mode and the composition of the 
board, unless one is willing to accept that interim board members misuse their 
power to change the bylaws. 


The important point is that those interim Directors
> are replaced by *four* At Large directors *directly* 
> elected by the At Large members as soon as possible.

Right. The chances to reach this goal would be greatly increased if interim 
board members like Kraaijenbrink would resign and be replaced by interims 
who can be expected to at least accept the basic principles of representation 
as laid down in the White Paper, the MoU, the original bylaws, etc. 

jeanette

 (that there 
> obviously have to be numerous improvements to the election 
> process goes almost without saying).
> 
> Best regards,
> /// Alexander
> 
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