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<font size="+1">I checked in with Avri who helps us with this and
here is the updated text. Thanks again Milton.<br>
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Anriette<br>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">In
March 2014, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) made
an
historic announcement of its “intent to transition key
internet
domain name functions to the global multistakeholder
community.”
This development has triggered a process to identify a new
system to
replace NTIA’s “historic steward” of the DNS (internet domain
name system), which has been cause for concern and debate
among
governments and other stakeholders for more than a decade.</font></font></font><br>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">We
applaud the progress made in establishing the IANA Stewardship
Coordination Group (ICG). We remain concerned about the
accountability of ICANN and look forward to a genuine process
of
review and improvement by ICANN of its accountability to the
global
community. We are concerned that the ICG is focusing too much
on the
individual operational communities and not paying attention to
any
cross cutting IANA transition issues. While improvements in
ICANN
accountability are necessary, the goals of separation of
policy and
operation responsibility mean that IANA accountability needs
to be
dealt with as a separate issue by the ICG.</font></font></font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/08/2014 17:45, Anriette
Esterhuysen wrote:<br>
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<font size="+1">Dear Milton<br>
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Thanks so much for the heads up on this! <br>
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We quoted from the original submission on this by Avri - made to
NETmundial online - which we supported. We should have udpated
it. You are quite right in raising concerns.<br>
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We are working right now with Avri to update that part of the
document to reflect recent discussions. We will change the
online version.<br>
<br>
Anriette<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/08/2014 16:50, Milton L Mueller
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Anriette</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>On the whole it is an impressive
document, and shows that APC is taking laudable
initiatives on a number of fronts. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I was astounded however by the
document’s complete lack of familiarity with the ongoing
discussion of the IANA transition. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Specifically, your document writes:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Completing the plan to bring The
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>functions under Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>originally documented in the White
Paper is an advisable and overdue milestone</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>One of the key issues here is
WHETHER IANA will remain in ICANN or be structurally
separated. Typically, only ICANN staff, board members and
others with an organizational self-interest in retaining
control of IANA view the transition as a simple matter of
“bring[ing] the IANA functions under ICANN…” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Has APC actually come up with a
deliberate position on this, and if so on what basis? Have
you bothered to read any of the discussions of this topic
coming from IGP, ccTLD operators, gTLDs, registrars? Are
you unaware of the accountability issue raised by the
status of IANA? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Milton L Mueller</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Laura J and L. Douglas Meredith
Professor </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Syracuse University School of
Information Studies</span></p>
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href="http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/"><span>http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>From:</span></b><span> <a
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href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org">governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a>
[<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Anriette Esterhuysen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 29, 2014 5:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>;
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href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [governance] APC priorities for IGF
2014</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Attached.<br>
<br>
Anriette<br>
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<pre>executive director</pre>
<pre>association for progressive communications</pre>
<pre>po box 29755, melville, 2109, south africa</pre>
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<pre><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.apc.org">www.apc.org</a></pre>
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po box 29755, melville, 2109, south africa
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:anriette@apc.org">anriette@apc.org</a>
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anriette esterhuysen
executive director
association for progressive communications
po box 29755, melville, 2109, south africa
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:anriette@apc.org">anriette@apc.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.apc.org">www.apc.org</a></pre>
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