[CCWG-ACCT] [CCWG-Accountability] Membership thoughts

[Seun Ojedeji]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <epilisse at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Won't happen as not al ccTLDs are or will remain members of ccNSO.
>
> You can't have an internal, select group as members.
>
> All or none, in my view.
>

Fair enough....

>
> How are ISOC, the Red Cross/Crescent (etc), Doctors without Borders, or
> similar Non-Profits set up?
>

As far as i am know, ISOC is not a real membership organisation per see (in
the sense of accountability to members).

Regards

>
> el
>
> --
> Sent from Dr Lisse's iPhone 5s
>
>
> On Jan 20, 2015, at 20:38, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Jordan,
>
> thanks for your looking into this in further detail.
> My comment below:
>
> On 19/01/2015 16:00, Jordan Carter wrote:
>
>
> It would be straightforward and possible to make e.g. SO and AC chairs
>
> effective "members" of ICANN (we define our own membership system). It
>
> would be harder to allow individuals with some standing to join
>
> stakeholder constituencies of voters and then allocate shares of total
>
> votes across these in a fair way. It would be possible but mad to have
>
> a "one member one vote" system where a ccTLD manager had the same say
>
> as an Internet user.
>
>
> Isn't what you're describing ICANN version 1, with thousands of
> individual voters? I agree that did not work and will not work today
> either. However, I would also really urge caution in turning ICANN into
> a purely membership organisation that allocates shares of total votes
> according to size of organisational members. I have seen membership
> organisations being captured by large players buying out smaller players
> - the endgame being $$$ controlling the organisation and *not* the
> public interest.
> Kind regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> --
> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
> http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
>
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