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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Consolas, Courier New, Courier"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>Here's my Sunday afternoon take on this.<BR>
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Firstly, I am glad to see that the Internet is still working whatever NTIA or ICANN does or has done. That puts this in its perspective.<BR>
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Secondly, all of this raises higher questions of internet governance.<BR>
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NTIA is doing a fairly typical USG global politics reaction here - do it our way or else. Their right to do so is actually very questionable, and in reality it is because there is a vacuum in internet governance and trust of any multistakeholder body that this is even an issue at all.<BR>
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Whether you interpret Internet history to read that USG has some sort of right to unilaterally judge on such issues or not, it's absolutely certain that such a unilateral right has become obsolete with a global internet and we need to look at moving the NTIA function elsewhere, not the IANA functions.<BR>
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That can only be done through a representative global body. Now neither NTIA or ICANN wants that to be ITU and that isnt going to happen. So we can put that old fear to bed. But we still have to come up with a global structure that can have some authority here.<BR>
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To me the possibilities lie with a strengthening of Internet Governance Forum, currently not able to much at all because of a lack of funding. You will recall that IGF was initially opposed by both ICANN and ISOC - in latter days they have seen something of its merits, but despite their joint wealths their contributions to IGF are a pittance. Perhaps if both ISOC and ICANN committed say 10% of what they currently spend on internal staff benefits and fares to meetings for their closest supporters to provide IGF with a decent secretariat and funding for civil society and others who need support to attend meetings, the power and bargaining position of NTIA to rule on such issues might be replaced by a truly global body.<BR>
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But if we continue with the myth that the internet community knows best, and is beholden to no one, I'm afraid that NTIA will fill the Internet governance gap. I don't see whose interests that serves. <BR>
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Ian Peter<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>"Matthias C. Kettemann" <<a href="matthias.kettemann@uni-graz.at">matthias.kettemann@uni-graz.at</a>><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B><<a href="governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>>, "Matthias C. Kettemann" <<a href="matthias.kettemann@uni-graz.at">matthias.kettemann@uni-graz.at</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:01:17 +0100<BR>
<B>To: </B><<a href="governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [governance] NTIA says ICANN "does not meet the requirements"for IANA renewal<BR>
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I have done a bit of thinking and writing about what the NTIA decision tells us about Internet Governance and the multi-stakeholder approach. <BR>
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In brief: Is the NTIA decision a good thing for multistakeholderbased human rights-sensitive Internet Governance?</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> <BR>
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It is, if it leads to more accountability in the next application of ICANN, which is sure to follow.<BR>
It isn't, if it leads to more governmental oversight in defining the global public interest vis-a-vis the web. <BR>
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For more details, see <a href="http://goo.gl/d5GI8">http://goo.gl/d5GI8</a><BR>
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Cheers<BR>
Matthias<BR>
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Am 10.03.2012 22:32, schrieb Karl Auerbach: <BR>
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On 03/10/2012 11:12 AM, michael gurstein wrote:<BR>
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Perhaps the next IGF should have some sessions focusing on the nature of,<BR>
and a definition for "the global public interest".<BR>
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Might I suggest the following as a starting point?<BR>
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+ Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way<BR>
that is privately beneficial without being publicly<BR>
detrimental.<BR>
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- The burden of demonstrating public detriment shall<BR>
be on those who wish to prevent the private use.<BR>
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- Such a demonstration shall require clear and<BR>
convincing evidence of public detriment.<BR>
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- The public detriment must be of such degree and extent<BR>
as to justify the suppression of the private activity.<BR>
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This is from <a href="http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000059.html">http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000059.html</a><BR>
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--karl--<BR>
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