Re: [IFWP] Re: ICANN functions as corp, gov't, or hybrid

[Jon Zittrain]

Gene,

By internal I don't mean "closed" or secret!  I mean just the 
opposite--ICANN needs to have within it, i.e. based in its bylaws, 
structures that help openly entertain and resolve conflicts, including 
political ones over the functions that ICANN is charged with exercising--so 
that governments don't have to step in with a hatchet.  Gov'ts expressing a 
view through something like the "gov't advisory committee is much different 
from gov'ts expressing a view by, say, suing ICANN or terminating an 
MoU.  ...JZ

At 01:20 PM 7/11/99 , Gene Marsh wrote:
>At 01:12 PM 7/11/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >Yes, ultimately.  I think ICANN is better off if it has internal mechanisms
> >for accountability so that gov't's need not step in--or threaten to step
> >in--to keep it in line.  ...JZ
> >
>
>Jon,  I disagree.  I believe ICANN needs to have open mechanisms which
>ENCOURAGE governments to occasionally step in, for review of the processes
>and accountability.  Only having sunshine on ICANN and its methods will work.
>
>Gene Marsh
>
>++++++++++
>Gene Marsh
>president, anycastNET Incorporated
>330-699-8106