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Re: [ga] The North American DNSO BoD chair -Sad Testiment.

Ms Rony and Everybody,

  If present recent history in this skewed process is any guide, I believe you
will
be proven correct.  This really underscores the serious problem this
process seems to be plagued with and it seems to just continue to feed
upon itself as well....  A sad testimony.

Ellen Rony wrote:

> Kent Crispin wrote:
> >
> >3) the NC must ignore this because it isn't part of the ground
> >rules.  Saying that the nominations were really elections in
> >disguise changes the rules dramatically, and many people would have
> >done things much differently if that were really to be the case.
>
> I think the same skewed thinking will appear when the At Large Council
> selects or elects the At Large members of the ICANN board.  Should the
> membership ever reach that lefty threshhold of 5,000 members and finally
> elect At Large Council members, what guarantees will we have that they, in
> turn, will reflect the will of the membership body.
>
> ICANN's supposedly bottom up structure is realy a steeply angled pyramid
> scheme with perhaps 50 people making all the significant decisions for the
> entire Internet administration. IMHO.
>
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Regretfully,
--
Brian C. Hollingsworth
Sr. Legal Advisor, International House of Justice Internet
Communications  Affairs and Policy
Advisory council for Public Affairs and Internet Policy, European
Union