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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/04/13 12:50, Fouad Bajwa wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">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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