[governance] APC priorities for IGF 2014

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

I checked in with Avri who helps us with this and here is the updated
text. Thanks again Milton.

Anriette



In March 2014, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) made an
historic announcement of its “intent to transition key internet domain
name functions to the global multistakeholder community.” This
development has triggered a process to identify a new system to replace
NTIA’s “historic steward” of the DNS (internet domain name system),
which has been cause for concern and debate among governments and other
stakeholders for more than a decade.

We applaud the progress made in establishing the IANA Stewardship
Coordination Group (ICG). We remain concerned about the accountability
of ICANN and look forward to a genuine process of review and improvement
by ICANN of its accountability to the global community. We are concerned
that the ICG is focusing too much on the individual operational
communities and not paying attention to any cross cutting IANA
transition issues. While improvements in ICANN accountability are
necessary, the goals of separation of policy and operation
responsibility mean that IANA accountability needs to be dealt with as a
separate issue by the ICG.


On 29/08/2014 17:45, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
> Dear Milton
>
> Thanks so much for the heads up on this! 
>
> We quoted from the original submission on this by Avri - made to
> NETmundial online - which we supported. We should have udpated it. You
> are quite right in raising concerns.
>
> We are working right now with Avri to update that part of the document
> to reflect recent discussions. We will change the online version.
>
> Anriette
>
>
> On 29/08/2014 16:50, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>>
>> Anriette
>>
>> On the whole it is an impressive document, and shows that APC is
>> taking laudable initiatives on a number of fronts.
>>
>> I was astounded however by the document’s complete lack of
>> familiarity with the ongoing discussion of the IANA transition.
>>
>> Specifically, your document writes:
>>
>>  
>>
>> Completing the plan to bring The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
>> (IANA)
>>
>> functions under Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
>> (ICANN) as
>>
>> originally documented in the White Paper is an advisable and overdue
>> milestone
>>
>>  
>>
>> One of the key issues here is WHETHER IANA will remain in ICANN or be
>> structurally separated. Typically, only ICANN staff, board members
>> and others with an organizational self-interest in retaining control
>> of IANA view the transition as a simple matter of “bring[ing] the
>> IANA functions under ICANN…”
>>
>> Has APC actually come up with a deliberate position on this, and if
>> so on what basis? Have you bothered to read any of the discussions of
>> this topic coming from IGP, ccTLD operators, gTLDs, registrars? Are
>> you unaware of the accountability issue raised by the status of IANA?
>>
>>  
>>
>> Milton L Mueller
>>
>> Laura J and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
>>
>> Syracuse University School of Information Studies
>>
>> http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>> *From:*governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org
>> [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] *On Behalf Of
>> *Anriette Esterhuysen
>> *Sent:* Friday, August 29, 2014 5:57 AM
>> *To:* bestbits at lists.bestbits.net; governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>> *Subject:* [governance] APC priorities for IGF 2014
>>
>>  
>>
>> Attached.
>>
>> Anriette
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> `````````````````````````````````
>> anriette esterhuysen
>> executive director
>> association for progressive communications
>> po box 29755, melville, 2109, south africa
>> anriette at apc.org <mailto:anriette at apc.org>
>> www.apc.org <http://www.apc.org>
>
> -- 
> `````````````````````````````````
> anriette esterhuysen
> executive director
> association for progressive communications
> po box 29755, melville, 2109, south africa
> anriette at apc.org
> www.apc.org

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anriette esterhuysen
executive director
association for progressive communications
po box 29755, melville, 2109, south africa
anriette at apc.org
www.apc.org

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