[Chapter-delegates] delhi and JPA

[Alan Levin]

Hi,

On 12 Feb 2008, at 11:01 AM, Anne Lord wrote:
> Remote participation has been very difficult to provide at this  
> meeting.

IMHO it's always nice to have some kind of chat room. As long as  
there is internet access, a jabber/yahoo chat room should not be  
difficult to setup. Most of us have used both before and we have  
accounts/address-books to look up and add folk. (I am Jabber:  
alanlevin at gmail.com Yahoo: anotheralanlevin at yahoo.com)

Re: JPA

I feel that this is largely a political issue rather than technical  
co-ordination/governance so I'm hesitant to take a position. I know  
that our government is strongly against US 'control' (I know the word  
should be oversight but for illustrative reasons I prefer to use the  
word control). I personally would much rather have US control than UN  
control, or ZA control.  But I don't believe there should be any  
government control, the GAC seems to work fine.

I do believe that we need to end the experiment and validate ICANN as  
THE vehicle for global Internet co-ordination as soon as possible,  
quickly but without compromising the process.

I hope that we can come to consensus about it although I wonder if  
ISOC global can sustain itself in it's current form. The tension  
between big business and chapter and civil society interests are  
often juxtaposed. Has there ever been a follow up study since the  
change in governance in ISOC? I believe that organisational members  
gained 'control' of the BOT in 1998/9, has the effects of this ever  
been looked at?

Sincerely

Alan








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