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Re: "The core Internet institutions abandon the US Government"

2013-10-11 11:37:39
Until ICANN becomes a "member" based organization where you have real
constituents that can fire a director, the organization is only
representative of itself and its ecosystem.

-J


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:25 AM, John Levine <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

Just few quick questions,

In what part of Fadi Chehadé mandate at ICANN this falls ? And who
sanctified him as representative of the Internet Community ?

He is just an employee of ICANN and these actions go way beyond ICANN's
mission and responsibilities.

ICANN has a long running fantasy that they are a global
multi-stakeholder organization floating above mere politics, and not a
US government contractor incorporated as a California non-profit.
This will never change, and everyone familiar with the situation knows
it, but for internal political reasons ICANN likes to pretend
otherwise.

I suppose in the current political situation about the NSA there's no
harm in the other groups going along with it for a while.

R's,
John