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

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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@xxxxxxxxx> 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


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