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 <jo...@taugh.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 >
