I hope we dont find ICANN in relevance to the same system in the grey, the
bigger picture is ununderstandable

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Jorge Amodio <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Very good.
>
> While I'm happy that the JPA is over, I'm leaning in your same
> direction that there
> is not much yet to celebrate, and despite the sensationalistic news
> titles everywhere
> the "independence thing" is very relative.
>
> Put it on a MoU, JPA, AoC, White, Green or whatever color of paper you
> like,
> if we keep insisting in an institutional architecture for the
> organization that has the
> same group of people involved in policy development, policy implementation,
> compliance verification, GAO role, and on top acts as the tax collection
> agency,
> IMHO we'll keep going in the wrong direction.
>
> For example, just to mention one, I'd have all paid supporting staff for
> policy
> development completely separated from the executive side of ICANN and
> reporting to the chair of the GNSO.
>
> I'm not an attorney so correct me if I'm wrong. As far as I know being
> ICANN
> a non-profit CA corp with no institutional "members", legally besides to
> the
> Attorney General, ICANN still is accountable to ... nobody ?
>
> BTW, the AoC is a good step forward, but what the heck people are
> celebrating ?
>
> Cheers
> Jorge
>