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<div>Ian -</div>
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<div>Good point... (I was reading and replying via a mobile phone and misread the level of quoting.)</div>
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<div>In any case, I hope the information is useful. ICANN as a simply a mechanism for technical </div>
<div>coordination of Internet identifiers is relatively understandable; </div>
<div>i.e. a body which <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">performs that
sole task, while taking accepted </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">social and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">public
policy norms into</span></div>
<div>consideration and working </div>
<div>under broad and transparent oversight by the Internet <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">
community </span></div>
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governments, civil society, </span></div>
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<div>/John</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
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On Jun 30, 2012, at 12:15 AM, "Ian Peter" <<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<title>Re: [governance] Oversight, was [liberationtech] Chinese preparing for a "Autonomous Internet" ?</title>
<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Hi John,<br>
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You are actually responding to Parminder’s query here, but thanks for the input!<br>
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Ian<br>
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<b>From: </b>John Curran <<a href="jcurran@arin.net">jcurran@arin.net</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:54:51 +0000<br>
<b>To: </b>Ian Peter <<a href="ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"<a href="governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>" <<a href="governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [governance] Oversight, was [liberationtech] Chinese preparing for a "Autonomous Internet" ?<br>
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On Jun 28, 2012, at 10:47 PM, Ian Peter wrote:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">This then brings us to the issue of how to deal with the 'oversight' function - defined as dealing with public policy issues concerning CIR management (which includes names, numbers
and protocols). This issue also pointedly comes to the fore from the discussion in the FBI-DEA-IPv6 thread. I am a surprised at the lack of clarity even among veterans of this space about who deals with such a key public policy issue and how, with clear opposite
views whether ICANN should be dealing with it or not. We know that important public policy issues connecting directly to CIR management will keep on arising in the future, and perhaps, multiplying in number. We need to foresight how to deal with this situation.
It is not possible to sweep this important issues under the carpet. <br>
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Ian - <br>
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Without passing judgement on the current system for technical coordination<br>
of Internet addresses, I will attempt to describe how it accommodates public<br>
policy issues as they are encountered.<br>
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Public policy issues do indeed come up in the policy discussions at the <br>
Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), but these issues are taken along with other<br>
factors (such as technical ability to route IP addresses, business concerns<br>
about availability of IP addresses for service providers, civil society concerns<br>
about privacy, etc.) and all are considered in the formation of policy. This has<br>
led to policies which consider various public policy issues (for example, in the<br>
ARIN region, residential privacy concerns cause that information to be redacted<br>
from the public Whois directory per community developed policy.)<br>
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Each RIR has its own community which considers policy proposals, and those<br>
that are supported are adopted via the processes in the region. While that can<br>
(and does) lead to slightly different policies between regions, it is also a strength<br>
in that policies that are felt to be important can be adopted by a region without<br>
having to await a global policy process. "Good" policies do tend to get adopted<br>
in multiple regions, and global policies are indeed possible if all of the regions
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agree to the same policy text.<br>
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At present, there are no policies in the ARIN region which directly address the
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matter which the FBI raised regarding potential lack of incentive for accuracy in<br>
future IPv6 Whois information. In fact, there are already policies which require<br>
accurate information to be present, but the issue being raising is whether such<br>
industry-led self-governance policies will suffice for insuring that the Whois<br>
information remains accurate (in the absence of need to obtain new address <br>
blocks as exists today with IPv4.) <br>
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Considering the public policy issues involved with the potential of a top-down<br>
or "regulatory" approach might be necessary, but that type of solution could<br>
easily be beyond ICANN's limited mandate of technical coordination.<br>
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/John<br>
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John Curran<br>
President and CEO<br>
ARIN<br>
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