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Hi Fouad,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(80,0,80)">Thank you for these enlightening comments. That was helpful.<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(80,0,80)">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Fouad Bajwa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fouadbajwa@gmail.com" target="_blank">fouadbajwa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Mawaki,<br>
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Thank you for taking the initiative and putting in the effort. In my<br>
personal view, IGC should be strongly concerned about the policy<br>
making mechanisms of both this change the its future thus this should<br>
be well mentioned.<br>
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It is very unclear of how this model will evolve in the future. Will<br>
ICANN continue to be that body that manages the IANA function, what is<br>
the future of IANA then?<br>
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Will IANA and ICANN be integrated into one organizational model and<br>
how will this organization be moved out of the US and that brings us<br>
back to the initial discussions on the IGC list about the various<br>
possible models including one where ICANN be located to Geneva and<br>
thereof act as an International organization and go into agreements,<br>
treaty or non-treaty bindings with the participation of various<br>
multilateral or bilateral, civil society, technical community and<br>
private sector organizations and bodies.<br>
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It is also important to see how Governments are reacting to this and<br>
the Singapore ICANN Public Meeting will be a good space to see how the<br>
GAC responds or the statements that come out of there.<br>
<br>
This is a whole new process and we have to find a way to keep IGC<br>
involved inside out of the present and future of this transition where<br>
IGC also holds ground in all policy development processes of this new<br>
form of Internet Governance of the Domain and Naming Space of the<br>
Internet.<br>
<br>
As far as the issue of primary Internet organizations are concerned,<br>
that role has evolved to their present state and the Domain and IP<br>
owners, users, consumers or whatever the human role in the<br>
transactional value of domains be, is very primary and important so<br>
that cannot be left to just mentioning Internet organizations as<br>
primary, the human being or user or consumer is primary and thats who<br>
makes this whole system work and creates the demand for this political<br>
economy to operate.<br>
<br>
The new role of ICANN or any for the operation and management of an<br>
internationalized and independent domain name space beyond the control<br>
of any nation requires that stakeholders are clearly mentioned and<br>
brought into such a space on equal footing and grounds. That is not<br>
the case as such.<br>
<br>
The present ICANN community development processes do inhibit<br>
participation from across the world and though there are some<br>
productive efforts in place but they are not abundant.<br>
<br>
Mawaki, when you say [consideration to the concerns and views of<br>
non-technical and non-commercial stakeholders in Internet policies],<br>
that becomes the version of ICANN itself and a terminology that it<br>
uses to create a crack between the Non-Profit or Non-Private Sector<br>
groups that work consistently to find common grounds to work together<br>
but are subject to hierarchy.<br>
<br>
IF we look at the present state of the Board of ICANN, you will find a<br>
great deal of imbalance that I have already mentioned.<br>
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The statement needs to be reviewed to represent a collective voice of<br>
IGC and in its own words rather than terminology incorporated from<br>
ICANN lingo.<br>
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