<div dir="ltr">Hi Parminder,<div><br></div><div>I would like to get clarification from your side about this part</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">

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      <p style="margin-left:1.25cm;margin-bottom:0cm" align="JUSTIFY">This
board
        will replace the US government's current oversight role over
        the technical and operational functions performed by ICANN<span style="background-color:transparent">.
          The membership of this oversight board can be of a
          techno-political
          nature, </span><i><span style="background-color:transparent">i.e.</span></i><span style="background-color:transparent">
          consisting of people with specialized expertise but who also
          have
          appropriate political backing, ascertained through a
          democratic
          process. For instance, the board can be made of 10/15 members,
          with
          2/3 members each from five geographic regions (as understood
          in the
          UN system). These members</span> can perhaps be selected
        through an
        appropriate process by the relevant technical standards bodies
        and/or
        country domain name bodies of all the countries of the
        respective
        region. (Other mechanisms for constituting the techno-political
        membership of this board can also be considered.)</p></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>in particular the meaning of "<span style="text-align:justify">appropriate political backing</span>" and what kind of democratic process you are envisioning?</div>

<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Rafik</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">

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    parminder<br>
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            <blockquote type="cite">For example, there is an "IANA
              Function Contract"...  how would one globalize the </blockquote>
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              <blockquote type="cite">'IANA oversight' function that is
                nominally provided today by the USG/NTIA?</blockquote>
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          <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">See the above link......
            Set up an international body that takes over this function
            with no accountability to the US, or any kind of US
            jurisdiction... Simple. What other way is there to
            globalise/ internationalise something ?<br>
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        <div>There are many different possible structures and
          mechanisms, for example,</div>
        <div>you propose a new UN body, an Oversight Board,
          globalization of ICANN,</div>
        <div>and maintenance/strengthening of the existing IGF.  I can
          easily imagine </div>
        <div>other methods of solving this problem with different
          arrangements of bodies</div>
        <div>and mechanisms.</div>
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        <div>The Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet
          Cooperation does not</div>
        <div>propose any particular solution, but only states that
          several organizations </div>
        <div>which are involved in Internet coordination believe that
          the globalization of </div>
        <div>ICANN and IANA functions (towards an environment in which
          all stakeholders, </div>
        <div>including all governments, participate on an equal footing)
          is a goal worth </div>
        <div>accelerating.</div>
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        <div>Given your strong expression of concern over the statement,
          I guess the </div>
        <div>question arises - would you have preferred a statement
          which indicated that</div>
        <div>the current USG oversight of ICANN and IANA is just fine?  
          That certainly</div>
        <div>would have supported the status quo...</div>
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        <div>/John</div>
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