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 >