<div dir="ltr">I don't think ICANN - IGF is a kind of either or thing, though, of course, IGF<div style>does cover far broader and deeper public policy issues pertaining to the Internet</div><div style>than ICANN, I fully agree.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>BUT, ICANN and its governance was the real starting point of the WSIS debate</div><div style>on Internet Governance and root of the IGF as we know it.</div><div style><br></div><div style>
Commercial interest domination can be also observed at IGF as Parminder</div>
<div style>and others argued for the public funding. I am not [yet] fully persuaded by</div><div style>the argument of public funding of UN. It also looks like UN domination, so</div><div style>to speak. I would like to see multi-stakeholder funding even it is not fully</div>
<div style>functional [yet]. But I might be wrong.</div><div style><br></div><div style>izumi</div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/4/9 Jeremy Malcolm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org" target="_blank">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>></span><br>
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<div>On 09/04/13 12:50, Fouad Bajwa wrote:<br>
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<pre>One thing to remember about ICANN is that the addressing and name
space is just like a phone book and there seems to be a continuous
problem of falling out of scope of ICANN's mandate which remains the
domain name and IP addressing space. The broader internet governance
and internet public policy issues do incorporate to a certain access
such critical internet resources and their sharing in discussions but
I tend to become uncomfortable to how much emphasis is laid down in to
ICANN as if it was responsible for engaging and providing internet
access to 2 billion users. Its only one part of the stack and not
actually the whole stack.
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I can't overstate how much I agree with this, though it's won't be
news to most members of this list. It all comes down to money
though, doesn't it? The time and effort poured into its website and
stakeholder engagement structures, its high-paid staff in offices
around the world, the volunteers who queue up to donate their time,
all seem like overkill when it comes down to the fact that it's all
just about domain names and IP addresses. In comparison the IGF,
which should be like an ICANN or an OECD for broader Internet
governance issues, is beyond a joke, and it's not (only) due to
incompetence or malice, it's due to lack of money. It's a case of
market failure: the free market oversupplies funding to ICANN, and
undersupplies it to the IGF. This makes Parminder's case for public
funding of the IGF rather compelling, I would have thought.<br>
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