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

[Fiona Asonga]

+1 Sivasubramanian if we take a futuristic approach there is a likelihood of locking out some potential members. 

Fiona 

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From: "Sivasubramanian M" <isolatedn at gmail.com> 
To: "Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" <ocl at gih.com> 
Cc: "Accountability Cross Community" <accountability-cross-community at icann.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 10:08:45 PM 
Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] [CCWG-Accountability] Membership thoughts 

I am equally concerned. The idea of moving to a membership based system takes us into an unknown territory. A membership based system shuts out a section of potential participants due to their inability to meet the requirement (money or other) for membership, the system is prone to be captured, and there would be imbalances and unknown dangers. 

Sivasubramanain M 

Sivasubramanian M 

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:08 AM, 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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