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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Monday 17 October 2016 05:20 PM,
Marianne Franklin wrote:<br>
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<p>Dear Parminder</p>
<p>Thanks for sending over this piece in a growing literature on
ICANN and it future. <br>
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<p>Just to note that Pranesh's less than celebratory analysis for
the ICANN transition has been published on the openDemocracy
series, Human Rights and the Internet, at
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Thanks Marianne,<br>
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Yes, absolutely not at all celebratory! I had read it a few months
back, and should have had it in my mind when I made that comment.
But then, isnt it surprising that when two of the very few CS groups
in India consider that not much has happened with the so called
'transition' in terms of loosening of US control over ICANN, there
is simply no murmurs in the CS community globally to actually take
this issue up - in a political manner, like making a statement and
so on. I may repeat what I have said so many tomes earlier - in all
the multistakeholder meetings that I saw organised in India in the
transition processes it was always concluded that there are two key
issues to sort out - an 'external' oversight mechanism, and
jurisdiction issue. What we have is an oversight which is hardly
external, and the jurisdiction issue is being completely buried. But
still it seems that everyone -- more or less -- is just celebrating
the 'transition' with no critical take being adopted. <br>
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As Pranesh's article points out, seeking a host country agreement or
in other words jurisdictional immunity for ICANN from the US was the
demand of Internet Governance Caucus in 2005. The all round social-
political importance of the domain name system has only greatly
enhanced in the last 10 years, and so the US's jurisdictional
control over it should be ever less acceptable -- but why is no
major civil society group today able to get up and say the same
thing which IGC said and asked for in 2005? Especially when a
process is actually taking place which is formally examining the
jurisdiction question. I sometimes participate in that ICANN WG on
jurisdiction, where every effort is on to bury this question - and i
finds almost no civil society voice there. <br>
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People here may want to ponder this question - has the US
stranglehold on the IG discourse actually tightened since then -
meaning WSIS in 2005? Or perhaps there could be other reasons, which
I did not think of, and others can enlighten me on. (not addressed
to you Marianne :), it is general)<br>
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Parminder <br>
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PS: Excuse me to cc this to IGC list, where a similar discussion is
on... Those who respond may exercise discretion whether they want to
respond to both elists or one of them. <br>
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<p>MF</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/10/2016 15:48, parminder wrote:<br>
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<p><font face="Verdana">Hi All</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">I wrote this commentary piece in the
Economic and Political Weekly of India on ICANN's
oversight transition. For such an important and
multi-faceted event, it is surprising that I have come
across no article that is other than absolutely
celebratory about it, and catches properly the different
nuances that are involved. Such a monochromatic discourse
in the global IG space is not a good indication. There is
an especial lack of views from a progressive and social
justice perspective, and from the geopolitical South, both
of which I have tried to catch in this brief article. <br>
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<h1 class="western" style="font-weight: normal"><b><font
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Is the Internet Really Free of US Control?</font></b></h1>
<p>"The recent decision of the United States government to
cede its control over the internet’s naming and addressing
system to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN), a US-based international non-profit body,
is heralded as a significant step towards the globalisation
of internet’s core infrastructure. But with ICANN having no
special jurisdictional immunity and subject to the whims of
the judicial and legislative branches of the US government
as well as many of its executive agencies, the decision
seems more symbolic than meaningful."</p>
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Comments are welcome.<br>
parminder </div>
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