Milton Mueller continues his prolific pronouncements on ICANN on the
Internet Governance blog. In this posting he writes of a "small working
group created at the Paris meeting [that] has come to an agreement
about the voting distribution in ICANN's policy making Council for
domain names (the GNSO Council).
It remains to the ICANN Board and staff to accept and implement this
proposal, but the Board is expected to follow the consensus of the
working group. (If it does not, you will hear about it here!)" Mueller
says the "proposed solution is a victory for civil society
representation." He also says "This new structure eliminates an old
injustice in the ICANN" as "public interest/noncommercial voices were
constantly marginalized and the IPR/trademark interests became a
dominant force in domain name policy. ... It represents all stakeholder
groups evenly and requires balanced support across both user and
supplier houses before any proposal can go through."
To read this posting by Milton Mueller in full, see blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/31/3817694.html.
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