Roberto and all,
one has to remember that the members of the GAC are "Appointed" by the
ICANN (Initial?) Interim board (See Article VII and Article III of the ICANN
bylaws for further reference). Hence insuring that the stakeholders
have a "CHOICE" in whom represents their interests as a GAC member
is not and option, and therefore seems to many to be inconsistent with
the White Paper and the MoU. Again this is a process problem, which
Esther Dyson made it clear again in Santiago, the ICANN (Initial?)
Interim board is not interested in discussing or considering....
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Richard, Tony,
>
> Richard wrote:
> >
> > For Canada at least, and I suspect other countries, this has
> > not shown to
> > be "the will of the Government of Canada". We both know how and why it
> > was created :-)
> >
>
> I had the feeling this was the case, in reading a previous message from you.
> Nevertheless, I keep my point: the Canadian Government, if they care (and I
> believe they do), should make sure that "the will of the Government of
> Canada" will (pun not intended) be presented by the Canadian representative
> in the GAC.
>
> As per Tony's comments about the bias in the initial choice of reps for the
> GAC, I understand the point, and may even agree that ICANN could have made a
> different choice, picking a different "initial list", but I don't think it
> is really ICANN's duty to select in each Government the person that is
> supposed to represent best the "real" Government Internet interests: it is
> now the task of each Government (if they care) to make sure that the "good"
> person is appointed.
>
> I guess each person on this list may watch closely his/her country's rep on
> the GAC, and put pressure on his/her Government to appoint the best people,
> but you cannot expect ICANN to do this research for each of the 200+
> Governemnts. In fact, if I was a Government ;>), I would be upset if ICANN
> picked individually my rep on a committee of them.
>
> Regards
> Roberto
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