<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Aug 5, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>ICANN is <i><b><u>limited</u></b></i> in the scope, see below. ICANN does not govern the Internet. It is not the place to work out Internet governance policies as it only looks after a few of the policy areas identified in the WGIG 2005 Report [<a href="http://www.wgig.org/docs/WGIGREPORT.pdf">http://www.wgig.org/docs/WGIGREPORT.pdf</a> see pages 5-8] It says so too within the ICANN Articles of Incorporation, see excerpts below:</div>
<div><span style="font-size: x-small; ">In furtherance of the foregoing purposes, and in recognition of the fact that the Internet is an international network of networks, </span><b style="font-size: x-small; "><u>owned by no single nation</u></b><span style="font-size: x-small; ">, individual or organization, the Corporation shall, except as limited by Article 5 hereof, pursue the charitable and public purposes of lessening the burdens of government and promoting the global public interest in the operational stability of the Internet by </span></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;line-height:21.75px;font-family:Arial,Heveltica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font size="1">(i) coordinating the assignment of Internet technical parameters as needed to maintain universal connectivity on the Internet; </font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;line-height:21.75px;font-family:Arial,Heveltica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font size="1">(ii) performing and overseeing functions related to the coordination of the Internet Protocol ("<abbr title="Intellectual Property; or Internet Protocol" style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">IP</abbr>") address space;</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;line-height:21.75px;font-family:Arial,Heveltica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font size="1"> (iii) performing and overseeing functions related to the coordination of the Internet domain name system ("<abbr title="Domain Name System" style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">DNS</abbr>"), including the development of policies for determining the circumstances under which new top-level domains are added to the <abbr title="Domain Name System" style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">DNS</abbr> root system;</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;line-height:21.75px;font-family:Arial,Heveltica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font size="1"> (iv) overseeing operation of the authoritative Internet <abbr title="Domain Name System" style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">DNS</abbr> root server system; and</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;line-height:21.75px;font-family:Arial,Heveltica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font size="1"> (v) engaging in any other related lawful activity in furtherance of items (i) through (iv).</font></span></p>
<div><font size="1">...</font></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Salanieta - </div><div><br></div><div> You are correct; ICANN was envisioned to perform the very clearly defined task</div><div> of coordination of technical parameters needed to keep the Internet running,</div><div> including overseeing the development of related policies for the coordination</div><div> of these parameters. The recording of this intent can also be found in the</div><div> formative Green and White papers which were developed to describe the </div><div> need and structure for the new organization.</div><div><br></div><div> I think it is true to say that ICANN is a part of the governance system of the</div><div> Internet, but that does not equate with it being "_the_ place to work out to work </div><div> out Internet governance policies" (emphasis added), implying the sole place to </div><div> do so, since there could easily be needed Internet governance policies which </div><div> have nothing to do with the coordination of the technical parameters of the Internet.</div><div><br></div><div> Furthermore, coordination of technical parameters (and the policies needed for</div><div> same) does not necessarily imply validity to define global consensus on any</div><div> public policy issue that happens to impact the Internet. For example, freedom</div><div> of expression is a concept far greater than the Internet, so it would not be </div><div> reasonable for the global reference consensus statement on "Freedom of </div><div> expression as a basic human right" to be worked out solely by ICANN. </div><div> Last month, I noted the challenge we face with respect to the scope of</div><div> "Internet Governance" policies; it is very easily to define that scope to be</div><div> far greater than the scope of the present institutions working in the Internet</div><div> ecosystem (see attached email).</div><div><br></div><div>FYI,</div><div>/John</div><div><br></div><div>Disclaimers: My views alone. Depend on my present location, email responses </div><div>may be 13.8 late minutes as a result of propagation delay.</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0px; "><b>From: </b>John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@istaff.org">jcurran@istaff.org</a>><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; "><b>Subject: </b><b>Re: [governance] Oversight</b><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; "><b>Date: </b>July 1, 2012 12:20:14 PM EDT<br></div><div style="margin: 0px; "><b>To: </b>parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; "><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; "><b>Reply-To: </b><a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>, John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@istaff.org">jcurran@istaff.org</a>></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">...</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Let's recall one key statement from ICANN's core values:</div><div><br></div><div>"11. While remaining rooted in the private sector, recognizing that governments and public authorities are responsible for public policy and duly taking into account governments' or public authorities' recommendations."</div><div><br></div><div>Taking such recommendations into account _requires_ that there </div><div>is either a single consensus input received or indeed a high degree </div><div>of commonality among all of the recommendations received. I do</div><div>believe that ICANN must respect the guidance in these cases, but</div><div>from what I can determine it is not in ICANN's mission to bring about</div><div>consensus in social and public policy matters where none exists today.</div><div>(and If ICANN had such amazing abilities, then we should have it work</div><div>on world hunger and conflict before worrying about Internet matters...)</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>...</div>If the public policy considerations that you reference are areas where we</div><div>have commonly accepted and documented societal norms, then those </div><div>documents should be formally submitted into the policy development </div><div>processes and ICANN should be held accountable, per its core values,</div><div>for taking them into consideration in setting policies for technical identifier</div><div>coordination and management for the Internet.</div><div><br></div><div>If the public policy considerations that you reference are areas where we</div>lack commonly accepted and documented societal norms, I would think<div>that bringing governments, civil society, and businesses together on these </div><div>matters first would be a high priority, and a task much larger in scope that</div><div>ICANN's mission.</div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>