At 02:18 PM 3/12/00 , Michael Sondow wrote:
>Ellen Rony wrote:
> >
> > Where are the checks and balances in the ICANN @Large nominating plan? An
> > ICANN board can appoint a Nominating Committee that has a particular agenda
> > or perspective and may screen out candidates who do not fit the desired
> > mold.
>
>That is obviously exactly what they intend. Embarrassed into
>deleting the 'At-large Council' by the publicly-made CDT and Common
>Cause criticisms of the election process
>(http://www.cdt.org/dns/icann/study/), the ICANN Board has simply
>replaced the Council with the Nominating Committee.
>
>Will CDT and Common Cause keep quiet now, or will they continue to
>denounce ICANN's shenanigans and duplicity?
According to a recent Wired article:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34891,00.html
the folks at Common Cause seem happy,
and the CDT people seem cautious.
Frankly, I was pleasantly surprised
with their initial report. I hope
they stick to their guns, and expose
the ICANN "compromise" as nothing of
the sort.
Jay.
>That depends upon the
>position of the Markle Foundation, which did not openly support the
>CDT and Common Cause announcements. If CDT and Common Cause now
>openly criticize the Nominating Committee trick, and Markle does not
>support their stance and withdraws its funding to them, we may have
>heard the last of the only public voices so far opposed to this
>dangerous farce.
>
>This indeed seems to be what has happened: "Public Interest Groups
>Praise Democratic Course Set by ICANN" (http://www.cdt.org/).
>Unless, of course, the CDT/Common Cause study of the ICANN election
>process was a ruse from the beginning.
>
>
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