[IP] ICANN - And here's who will be running the Internet for the next 3 years

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Subject: ICANN - And here's who will be running the Internetfor the next
three years

The Register

And here's who will be running the Internetfor the next three years

By Kieren McCarthy
Posted: 18/06/2003 at 08:34 GMT

ICANN has announced who will act as its Board Directors for the
next three years. Meeting all expectations, its independent
Nominating Committee has chosen people already well known and
connected within the ICANN community amid several executives
from multi-national corporations that help fund ICANN.

However, critics' accusations that the whole process has been
undemocratic and reiterates the charge that the body running the
Internet is a self-serving elite, fall short.

Although the Nominating Committee contains a clear majority of
people intricately tied with the existing clique running ICANN, and
despite the facts that all meetings were carried out behind closed
doors to procedures that will not be divulged, ICANN has stuck to
the word of its democratic founding creed.

Over-seeing the delayed transition to a full voted-for board was
NomCom chair Linda Wilson. Ms Wilson has bravely stayed on the
Board since ICANN's inception, despite monthly calls to retire. She
has braved criticism for remaining on the Board after she promised
to step down after one year. She has also dismissed accusations of
abuse when an emergency measure was introduced to give herself
and fellow Board members a further two years in charge. She has
also faced anger when she again extended her term another two
years (something that the ICANN bylaws had to be rewritten to
accommodate). And finally, she dealt with malcontents when she
and others gave themselves another four years in a ruling position.
No one then was better able to preside over who should join the
ICANN Board. 

Although the Board positions that the Internet community itself
directly elects (as written into the founding rules of ICANN) had to be
scrapped in order to make way for people who better understood
ICANN's aims and motives, the democratic spirit lives on. Five
representatives chosen by the At Large Advisory Committee were
allowed to vote in NomCom meetings against 12 other
representatives from ICANN bodies.

Not only that but members of the public were permitted to put their
name forward to be considered by the NomCom. In the end, 110
people offered their services and the Committee wisely chose those
names that it was already familiar with and could be certain would
do the right job - as defined by ICANN bylaws. The new Net folk
heros will be introduced at ICANN's Montreal meeting next week.

So with justice done although not seen to be done, let's review those
shining beacons of Internet democracy, as chosen by those that
know best. (We have to confess though, the concept of choosing at
the same time different groups of differently numbered people to
serve entirely different terms follows a logic that can only have come
from ICANN.) 


Short-term Board members (26 June 2003 - Annual meeting
2003)


                         Masanobu Katoh: Already an ICANN director. Fujitsu
lawyer.
                         Specialises in intellectual property
                         Veni Markovski: ICANN insider. Chair of Internet
Society,
                         Bulgaria. [Also gets voted in again automatically
until 2006 -
                         see below]
                         Hualin Qian: Helped introduce Chinese Internet
system. [Also
                         gets voted in again automatically until 2006 - see
below]



                    Medium-term Board members (26 June 2003 - Annual meeting
                    2004)



                         Ivan Moura Campos: Already an ICANN director. Heads
the
                         board for Brazil's domain
                         Vinton Cerf: Already an ICANN director. In fact
ICANN
                         chairman
                         Tricia Drakes: Chair of ISOC England. Banker



                    Long-term Board members (26 June 2003 - Annual meeting
                    2005)



                         Thomas Niles: ICANN insider. US diplomat
                         Njeri Rionge: Kenyan businesswoman from marketing
                         background



                    Real long-term Board members (Annual meeting 2003 -
                    Annual meeting 2006)



                         Hagen Hultzsch: Ex-Deutsche Telekom top shot
                         Veni Markovski: ICANN insider. Chair of Internet
Society,
                         Bulgaria
                         Hualin Qian: Helped introduce Chinese Internet
system



                    GNSO Council members



                         Amadeu Abril i Abril (until 2004): ICANN insider.
There from
                         the very beginning
                         Demi Getschko (until 2005): ICANN well-known. Works
                         closely with ICANN director and fellow nominee Ivan
Moura
                         Campos
                         Alick Wilson (until 2005): New Zealand IT
consultant. On NZ
                         IT Association board



                    Interim At Large Advisory Committee



                     Roberto Gaetano (until 2004): ICANN insider. Ex-IBM
                     Kenneth Hamma (until 2004): Museum curator. Proposed
                    dismissed .museum TLD
                     Sunday Folayan (until 2005): Nigerian businessman.
Mainstay
                    of Nigerian Internet Group.
                     Tommi Matsumoto (until 2005): Japanese and Asia-Pacific
Net
                    representative
                     Tadao Takahashi (until 2005): ICANN insider. Chair of
Internet
                    Society, Brazil


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