IP: How To Fix ICANN

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "Crawford, Susan" <SCrawford () Wilmer COM>
> To: "'dave () farber net'" <dave () farber net>
>
> Dave -- your readers might be interested in this 
> article: 
> <http://www.icannwatch.org/archives/how2fixicann.htm>http://www.icannwatch.org/archives/how2fixicann.htm

What's Wrong with ICANN -- and How to Fix It

By: David R. Johnson and Susan P. Crawford[1]

ICANN has lost track of its core mission and failed to build the 
institutions and processes that would give it legitimacy and make it 
effective. Almost all of the mistakes ICANN has made along the way stem 
from a collective failure to understand that ICANN is not engaged in 
"internet governance" (democratic or otherwise) but, rather, a form of 
substantive standard-setting on specific topics -- based on a demonstration 
of widespread community support -- as to which registries, registrars and 
registrants have contractually agreed to be bound.