Important blog post about the ICANN Accountability CCWG

Avri Doria avri at ACM.ORG
Thu Dec 25 19:41:09 EET 2014


Hi,

But everything that ICANN does, has a public interest (PI) component. 
It is not about searching for other areas to assert PI about.  It is
about finding the proper PI point for balancing the various rights
affected by what we do within our mission.

avri

On 25-Dec-14 18:31, Sam Lanfranco wrote:
> Avri,
>
> Agreed! part of ICANN process should be, in a particular situation, to
> assess whether or not a particular search for public interest  is
> appropriate for within ICANN. or whether ICANN and others can help it
> find its appropriate process venue elsewhere. Just because something
> Internet related is important (has a public interest?), that does not
> mean it should be addressed within ICANN. Also, that does not prevent
> the ICANN community from having a voice in the dialogue elsewhere.
>
> Sam 
>
> /On 25/12/2014 6:09 PM, Avri Doria wrote://
> /
>> ///
>> /
>> /On 25-Dec-14 15:55, Dan Krimm wrote://
>> /
>>> /Milton, you make a good point about competing rights: they do often
>>> conflict and then we need to figure out how to balance them. /
>> /
>> //I have often thought that the search for public interest was the
>> search for that balance of the various rights and [cultural]
>> perceptions. Something dynamic and variable.//
>> / /
>> //But I d believe it is definable as a process and as a goal.//
>> / /
>> //avri//
>> / /
>> / /
>> / 
>
>
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