Yet another model proposes that existing intermediary organizations be delegated the right to appoint public "trustees" to the ICANN board as At-Large directors.
Such public-spirited "ombudsmen" could work with independence within the ICANN board to represent the public interest.
Yet there are practical problems with this model as well. It would not be simple to identify the appropriate intermediary organizations to choose the At-Large directors. There is little agreement on what constitutes a "public interest organization" even in the United States, where such organizations play a significant role in public life, much less in the rest of the world. Such organizations are much less likely to exist at all in many parts of the world. There is no clear mechanism for how the appointing organizations would be identified or how to allocate appointments to particular organizations or groups of organizations.
Our own solution is in some ways a variant of this idea, and has its virtues without its flaws. The At-Large Membership itself can be seen as an intermediary global "public interest organization" that is created for the purpose of bringing together citizens from around the world who are interested in the work of ICANN, much like other public interest groups organize around a particular cause or issue. The advantage of the ALM as the intermediary organization is that it is global and it consists of those members of the public who self-select to join it because of their interest in these issues and their desire to participate and contribute. It is appropriate for this intermediary organization to be the one that chooses the "public trustees" to serve on the ICANN board. We think it should do so through elections.
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