Re: "The core Internet institutions abandon the US Government"

[Jorge Amodio <[e-mail]>]

Until ICANN becomes a "member" based organization where you have real
constituents that can fire a director, the organization is only
representative of itself and its ecosystem.

-J


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:25 AM, John Levine <[e-mail]> wrote:

> >Just few quick questions,
> >
> >In what part of Fadi Chehadé mandate at ICANN this falls ? And who
> >sanctified him as representative of the Internet Community ?
> >
> >He is just an employee of ICANN and these actions go way beyond ICANN's
> >mission and responsibilities.
>
> ICANN has a long running fantasy that they are a global
> multi-stakeholder organization floating above mere politics, and not a
> US government contractor incorporated as a California non-profit.
> This will never change, and everyone familiar with the situation knows
> it, but for internal political reasons ICANN likes to pretend
> otherwise.
>
> I suppose in the current political situation about the NSA there's no
> harm in the other groups going along with it for a while.
>
> R's,
> John
>