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Regarding your question:
does ICANN have a "representation policy" stating what needs to be approved by the Board or what the CEO and staff can state on their own?)
ICANN has no board-created policy on this. And if we look at the issues such as the representation of the public in ICANN we see that the focus is on getting people into seats on the Board of Directors. An ICANN policy that abandons the power of the board to decide ICANN positions to ICANN's staff nullifies the value of any mechanisms for public representation.
We haven't spoken much about this, but the at-large issue depends on, among other things, ICANN's staff being reduced to a subservient role in which it merely carries out the policies created by the board rather than being an autonomous, policymaking (and policy effectuating) body in its own right. In other words, unless the board takes charge, any power that the at-large might obtain will really be nothing more than a toy steering wheel while ICANN's staff retains real control.
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