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Letâ??s assume that we embrace his theories and we get rid of the 
multi-stakeholder model. What happens?
If I understand correctly, according to Paul R. Letho the stakeholders become 
again what they were in first place, i.e. lobbyists. So, by definition of 
lobbyist they will lobby somebody to get their interests taken care of. My 
first question is: whom are they lobbying?
Translated into ICANN world, the only â??whoâ?? I see is the ICANN Board. So, 
the second question: who are the ICANN Directors and how do they get elected? 
Up to now, according to the multi-stakeholder model, some are elected/nominated 
by different stakeholders - pardon me, lobbyists - while others are selected by 
the NomCom, that I assume should disappear if we get rid of the 
multi-stakeholder model, because its composition is again an instance of 
multi-stakeholderism.
So, in short, how can ICANN get rid od the supposedly failing multi-stakeholder 
model and go back to what Paul R. Letho defines â??democracyâ???
Or, in simple words, how would a non-multi-stakeholder model be designed and 
implemented for ICANN?
Cheers,
Roberto


> On 01.07.2019, at 00:36, bzs@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 
> Before it was removed in November 2016 the "Criticisms" section of
> Wikipedia's "Multistakeholder Governance Model" read:
> 
>  Criticism of multistakeholderism comes from Paul R. Lehto,
>  J.D.{{Citation needed|date=March 2014}}, who fears that in
>  multistakeholderism, those who would be lobbyists become
>  legislators, and nobody else has a vote. Lehto states that "In a
>  democracy, it is a scandal when lobbyists have so much influence
>  that they write the drafts of laws. But in multistakeholder
>  situations they take that scandal to a whole new level: those who
>  would be lobbyists in a democracy (corporations, experts, civil
>  society) become the legislators themselves, and dispense with all
>  public elections and not only write the laws but pass them, enforce
>  them, and in some cases even set up courts of arbitration that are
>  usually conditioned on waiving the right to go to the court system
>  set up by democracies. A vote is just a minimum requirement of
>  justice. Without a vote, law is just force inflicted by the wealthy
>  and powerful. Multistakeholderism is a coup dâ??etat against democracy
>  by those who would merely be lobbyists in a democratic system.
> 
>  
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multistakeholder_governance_model&diff=768793583&oldid=750897618
> 
> Sound familiar?
> 
> It doesn't even touch upon how those lobbyist/legislators are chosen
> except by implication.
> 
> Sometimes summarized as:
> 
>  Multistakeholderism: A governance structure of, by, and for the
>  lobbyists.
> 
> -- 
>        -Barry Shein
> 
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