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ICANN
Berkman Center team members John
Perry Barlow and Diane
Cabell attended the ICANN meetings, participating, observing,
and reporting back on critical issues. Watch this space for
updates.
Some Thoughts
on Restructuring ICANN, prepared by Patrick Lewis.
John
Perry Barlow's Accra Manifesto
On the agenda in Accra are several items of particular interest
to the Berkman Center:
- Reassignment
of the .org TLD (Top Level Domain)
One of ICANN's important charter missions was to bring
competition into the domain name space. As part of that
goal, .ORG will be redelegated to a new registry management.
The ICANN board will vote in Accra on the criteria for selecting
this new .ORG management. Will this be a non-profit entity?
- Consideration
of Stuart Lynn's restructuring proposal
ICANN's CEO believes its current structure is burdened
by process and cannot perform its mission in "Internet
time". He has proposed a new organizational structure
which gives governments a new and direct voice in ICANN
management.
- At
Large Study Report/Public Involvement
Should there continue to be some form of direct user
representation in ICANN's administration? What lessons were
learned from the first At Large election and where will
ICANN go from here?
- Report
on Status of Independent Review Nominating Committee
As a global private non-profit organization, ICANN lacks
checks and balances found in commercial markets or corporate
and democratic government structures. Redress in a global
environment is too expensive for most parties. A review
process was proposed but failed to meet ICANN's goals in
this regard. What next?
Other ICANN resources:
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