[CPWG] [ECAdmin] Correspondence

[Nat Cohen]

When Lawrence Strickling, on behalf of the US Government, entered into the
Affirmation of Commitments with ICANN, ICANN committed to, among other
things:

8. ICANN affirms its commitments to: ... (c) to operate as a
multi-stakeholder, private sector led organization with input from *the
public, for whose benefit **ICANN shall in all events act.*
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/affirmation-of-commitments-2009-09-30-en

Yet there is no mechanism within ICANN to ensure that ICANN acts for the
benefit of the public.  Various vested interests hold the levers of policy
making in ICANN, such that ICANN consistently adopts policies that benefit
the vested interests while harming the public.   ICANN's commitment to act
for the benefit of the public is merely empty words.


On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 11:37 PM Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:

> Some of us always knew that the transfer of oversight from the USG to a
> committee of insiders actually reduced oversight unless ICANN did something
> to upset its vested interests. The term "empowered community" was a
> doublespeak oxymoron from the start.
>
> The only surprise is that it took such a miserable issue as this for
> others to figure it out.
>
> The real sadness is for the massive amounts of wasted time and effort
> spent in the futile hope that the departure of the USD from ICANN oversight
> would lead to improvement to the MSM. I'm not sure if a change of
> jurisdiction would have mattered much given the pride taken in getting
> governments out of ICANN oversight.
>
> I really miss the Strickling letters.They weren't much, but spoke like
> alarm sirens next to the oversight that now exists.
>
> - Evan
>
>
>
> On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 15:47, Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > On Feb 5, 2020, at 9:29 PM, Roberto Gaetano <
>> mail.roberto.gaetano at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The irony is that we have spent years of heavy work by the whole
>> community to free ICANN up from the ties with US government and replace
>> this supervision by a multi-stakeholder body just to find out that the only
>> body that can force disclosure by ICANN about discussions hidden from the
>> community is a US court.
>> >
>> > Sad, very sad.
>>
>> Indeed, it is very sad and very frustrating.  The US government seems to
>> have truly gotten over its desire to manage the Internet, and now we’ve got
>> ICANN pulling them back in through this sort of childish behavior.
>>
>>                                 -Bill
>>
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