Re: ICANN Reform - a proposal

[Daniel Karrenberg <]

At 18:02 11/03/2002, Turchanyi Geza wrote:
>You are right. However, is this important?

Yes, I think this is important for the RIPE community.

>Is there still a way that your voice will be listened?

Yes I think our voice has an influence on how ICANN will
develop. Definitely our voice has an influence how the 
RIPE NCC will interact with ICANN.

>...

>I fully aggree with Harald Alvestrand' analyse as far as the tasks of
>ICANN concerned. However, only partialy with the triumvirate concept.
>...

As I said before. The important question now is 

        What should ICANN be doing? And what not? 

This is the important first step when 're-inventing' ICANN.
Once that is clear one can discuss changes to ICANN's structure. 
It is an old trick to focus the discussion on details of structure 
while at the same time making a big grab for (additional) mandate. 
If it works, everyone will have implicitly accepted the mandate 
while they fight over seats on advisory committees.
This should not happen now! 
Take the first step *before* the second.

Daniel