Important blog post about the ICANN Accountability CCWG

[Wisdom Donkor]

Good point made Sam.

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On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Sam Lanfranco <lanfran at yorku.ca> wrote:

>
> David Johnson’s blog argues that the democratic potential for ICANN
> membership is in danger of being co-opted by groups that want a very narrow
> and limited conception of who the members should be and a very expansive
> conception of what their powers should be. see:
> http://www.internetgovernance.org/2014/12/19/icann-accountability-a-coup-or-a-contract/
>
> It is important to go beyond the nature of this risk and look at the
> source of this risk, those pushing ICANN to be a public interest regulator.
> Johnson argues that “If ICANN took the “public interest regulator” option
> off the table, the “accountability” discussion could be greatly
> simplified.” This touches on a deeper question of whether or not ICANN is
> even the appropriate venue for protecting the “public interest” here.
>
> Using the discussions around regulated professions gTLD (e.g. .health,
> .doc, etc.) it becomes clear pretty quickly that there is little ICANN can
> do to address the “public interest” concerns there, even if it had some
> regulatory power. See my blog “*Rethinking, and Redirecting the Global
> Health Strategy on the Proposed .health gTLD*” at samlanfranco.blogspot.ca
> .
>
> Most public interest concerns will have to be addresses bottom up in
> struggles around policy at various levels within countries, within
> professions, and using appropriate regulatory tools and laws at those
> levels. ICANN cannot be all things to all concerns, and attempting to do so
> will compromise ICANN, while public interest concerns will still have to be
> addressed elsewhere.
>
>
> Sam L.
>
>
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