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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Evan,<br>
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This was excellent +1 from me<br>
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Judith<br>
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On 7/4/14, 10:33 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:<br>
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<div>the idea that there should be a global election for
board members of ICANN by citizens of the world and
users of the Internet was then and I think still is
unworkable. Qualifying the electorate and running a
verifiable election (ie, free of fraud) via the
Internet is still out of the question. In places like
Estonia where strong authentication is available it
appears possible to achieve such an objective but this
isn't feasible today on a global scale. I think the
At-Large mechanism is about the best one can do along
these lines for now.</div>
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<div>That might be workable, except that most of the
advocates for this stance have become exhausted begging
for it.</div>
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<div>After the last ALAC review, The Board Governance
Committee recommended that the At-Large Community be able
to elect two seats to the ICANN Board. In the end, we got
one and I was privately told by some Board members that we
should consider ourselves lucky to get that.</div>
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<div>During the second At-Large Summit held during ICANN50,
there were calls to renew a push for that second Board
seat chosen by At-Large. I believe this is indicates
within the Summit's final declaration that was presented
to Fadi and Stave. But without another Board-initiated
review to propose this, how does it happen? When At-Large
asks for it we come across to some as "just another
self-serving ICANN community wanting more power". Yet more
influence for At-Large, as a path to increased
accountability appears NEVER to be advanced outside of
ALAC itself.</div>
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<div>The push for this can get very disheartening. At times
it seems that the success or failure of greater At-Large
influence hinges on unfortunate criteria, such as the
performance of the sitting At-Large rep on the Board or
the perceived value of ALAC/Board meetings. I have even
been told that my personal scepticism about the public
benefit of the gTLD expansion, in small part, has been one
of many unspoken impediments to At-Large's being perceived
as worthy of another Board seat.</div>
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<div>Those of us working in At-Large to try to act, as some
including Fadi have said, as "ICANN's conscience", have
become exhausted at merely trying to be seen as worthy
enough. One of the sub-committees of the ATLAS2 organizing
group was called "Return on Investment". I find it
repugnant that, so many years after it was formed, even
inside At-Large we still feel the need to prove RoI. It
wasn't that long ago that even consistent travel support
had to be begged for,</div>
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<div>In summary, Vint, I would agree with you that more and
better use of At-Large may be capable of at least trying
to address the lack of free-for-all public elections. But
I really wish that there was more support for this option
outside of the ALAC itself. We don't have to go far within
ICANN meetings to find many Board members, senior staff
and indeed Fadi himself telling us At-Largers how vital we
are. The will to add more At-Large elected Board members
(perhaps to replace the NomCom appointments rather than
just making a bigger Board) would be the best way to put
action behind that sentiment.</div>
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<div>- Evan</div>
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