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
The process didn't require a lot of intellectual prowness.
The really intelligent way to do this was to contact the
Internet communities in each country - even using the ccTLD
contact list - and simply asking who the best choice of government
agency or official was. It actually appears that this may
have been done for France - which was one of the couple of
obvious departures. An alternative no brainer would have
been to use an "Internet friendly" list like the WTO GATS
list, or the OECD, to chose the agencies in each country
that have forced telecoms liberalization and legalization
of the Internet. Instead Twomey simply grabbed the ITU
list and started writing. This is the "clueless Twomey"
scenario.
I suspect what actually occurred, however, was that someone
associated with the US cluelessly made a deal at the ITU
Plenipotentiary Conference to create and constitute the GAC
with ITU constituents as a quid pro quo for changed wording
to the COM5/14 and COM5/15 Resolutions.
When was the last time you wrote a letter to a government
PTT official and told her/him that you represent the Internet
Community, and would they please give up their position on
a government Internet oversight committee along with all their
other PTT friends, in favour of another official - in the
interest of the Internet? :-)
--tony
