eCommerce Times – Internet Players Wrestle with Proposals to Prevent Capture
Shareholder- or member-based accountability systems are routine for most organizations, “but this is definitely new for ICANN, where only the U.S. government has held ICANN accountable through its power to withdraw the NTIA-ICANN contract,” said Steve DelBianco, executive director of NetChoice.
“Once the U.S. lets go of the ICANN contract for the Internet Assigned Names Authority, the community needs a new way to make its powers enforceable in the face of resistance by ICANN’s board,” he told the E-Commerce Times.
That’s the most significant item we haven’t yet addressed: how to make these new community powers enforceable under the laws of California where ICANN is organized,” DelBianco said.