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<p>I am sure you can find broad consensus for this Milton and am glad to +1
it, but there are too many devils in the details here. </p>
<p>If you end all political oversight that is a tough sell beyond that
power abhors a vacuum. So I am afraid this won't get as much traction as it
should. <br>
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<p style="margin: 10pt 0; color: black;">On 3 March 2014 7:33:21 PM Milton
L Mueller <mueller@syr.edu> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Today IGP released an innovative proposal to resolve
the 15-year controversy over the United States government’s special
relationship to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN).
<a
href="http://www.internetgovernance.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/ICANNreformglobalizingIANAfinal.pdf">
http://www.internetgovernance.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/ICANNreformglobalizingIANAfinal.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The proposal, which involves removing root zone
management functions from ICANN and creating an independent and neutral
private sector consortium to take them over, will be presented at the
Singapore ICANN meeting March 21, and has also
been submitted to the “NETMundial” Global Multistakeholder
Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance in
<em><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">São
</span></em>Paulo, Brazil, April 23 and 24.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We propose four basic principles to guide the reform
of the IANA functions: 1. Keep the IANA function clerical; separate it from
policy; 2. Don’t internationalize political oversight: end it; 3.
Align incentives to ensure the accuracy and
security of root zone maintenance; 4. De-link globalization of the IANA
function from broader ICANN policy process reforms. Even if there are
quibbles about the details of the proposal, we look forward to gaining
agreement on those principles, and are willing
to entertain any proposals that embody them. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Milton Mueller<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Professor, Syracuse University School of Information
Studies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a
href="http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/">http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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