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    <font face="Verdana">Mawaki<br>
      <br>
      A minor point, reg the following part of the statement<br>
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      "</font><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:'Times New
        Roman',serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">in the subsequent arrangements
        completing the transition toward the
        privatization of the DNS administration. "<br>
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        <font face="Verdana">Private has very different meaning in North
          America (as non gov) then in the rest of the world (meaning
          business)... So can you say it in a manner as if we are not
          saying it but quoting the Americans<br>
          <br>
          like<br>
          <br>
          "</font></span></font><font face="Verdana"><span
        style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font
          face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:'Times New
            Roman',serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">in the subsequent
            arrangements completing the transition toward, what was
            called in the NTIA 1988 white paper<font face="Verdana">
              as, </font> the
            privatization of the DNS administration."<br>
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            <font face="Verdana">Thanks<br>
              <br>
              parminder <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Monday 17 March 2014 07:08 AM,
      Mawaki Chango wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Dear all,
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        <div>Please find the current draft below. Please make sure to
          propose actual wording if you're not happy with any passage of
          this text. I might not be able at this point to digest lengthy
          comments and capture the gist into a sentence or two that will
          satisfy you.</div>
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        <div>Also, I wanted to note that this may not be an actual
          "press release" but an IGC statement. Why do you folks think?
          Have we done press releases before, and does that suit the
          current situation?</div>
        <div>Thanks,</div>
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        <div>Mawaki </div>
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        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
            style="font-family:'Times New
            Roman',serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">On
            March 14, U.S. Commerce Department’s National
            Telecommunications and
            Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intent to
            relinquish the
            oversight role it has played so far with the Internet
            Corporation for Assigned
            Names and Numbers (ICANN) regarding key Internet domain name
            functions.</span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
            style="font-family:'Times New
            Roman',serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
            style="font-family:'Times New
            Roman',serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">The
            Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) welcomes this decision and
            appreciates the
            opportunity for these functions and the stewardship of the
            Internet domain name
            system (DNS) to further evolve toward a governance model
            that is truly global and
            widely accepted. IGC particularly acknowledges with
            satisfaction the
            reiteration by NTIA of the necessity to involve all
            stakeholders in the process
            as well as in the subsequent arrangements completing the
            transition toward the
            privatization of the DNS administration. </span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
            style="font-family:'Times New
            Roman',serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
            style="font-family:'Times New
            Roman',serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">Supportive
            of the four principles put forward by NTIA to guide ICANN
            and the global
            Internet community in the formulation of a transition
            proposal, the Caucus wishes
            to particularly emphasize the need for maintaining the
            openness and the global
            availability of the Internet while continuously improving
            not only on its
            security but also on its safety for all users around the
            globe.</span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
            style="font-family:'Times New
            Roman',serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
            style="font-family:'Times New
            Roman',serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">Whereas
            the Caucus recognizes that the structures that develop
            protocols and set
            technical standards for the Internet play and will continue
            to play an essential
            role, we also note that it is equally crucial for the future
            arrangements to be
            inclusive of, and give effective consideration to, the
            concerns and views of Internet
            users, citizens and civil society organizations across the
            world, in developed
            as well as in developing regions. </span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
            style="font-family:'Times New
            Roman',serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
            style="font-family:'Times New
            Roman',serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">Indeed
            IGC supports the multistakeholder policymaking model to the
            extent that it is
            meant to be inclusive, bottom-up and consensus driven and,
            as such, it enhances
            democracy by seeking further participation from all people
            potentially impacted
            by its decision outcomes. It is our constant concern to make
            sure the term
            ‘multistakeholder’ is not reduced to mean
            ‘anti-intergovernmental’ or ‘private
            sector led’ but is rather positively open to embrace and
            actualize a
            ‘pro-all-peoples-of-the-world’ meaning.</span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
            style="font-family:'Times New
            Roman',serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
            style="font-family:'Times New
            Roman',serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">Finally,
            IGC is concerned that beyond phasing out NTIA’s current
            role, there remains the
            question of the jurisdiction to be applicable to the
            structure that will emerge
            from this transition. For such structure to be truly global,
            the Caucus feels
            it is important that it not be subject to one national
            jurisdiction but rather
            to an internationally recognized legal mechanism. It is in
            this context that appropriate
            accountability instruments should be carefully designed for
            the new governance
            institution.</span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
            style="font-family:'Times New
            Roman',serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
            style="font-family:'Times New
            Roman',serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">The
            Internet Governance Caucus</span></p>
        <div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:'Times New
            Roman',serif">March
            xx, 2014.</span> </div>
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