The ICANN board has agreed to go ahead and open serious (I hope...) 
discussion on the internationalization of ICANN! This is a result of a 
proposal favoring internationalization in the President's Strategy 
Committee Report.

I ought to say the report proposes an internationalization structure 
basically along the lines I suggested in my WGIG book paper (which I now 
consider a bit simplistic or even naive in some ways, but the basic 
thing is there): international multistakeholder organization, no 
predominance of any government (or any ensemble of governments), true 
equal representation of all sectors with clear direct election 
mechanisms of representatives etc etc. So I am particularly happy today 
(let us see about tomorrow...)!

Big challenge, but they seem keen to start walking in this direction!

--c.a.

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Carlos A. Afonso
diretor de planejamento
Rede de Informações para o Terceiro Setor - Rits
http://www.rits.org.br
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