[bestbits] Fwd: [Internet Policy] Fadi Chehadé: Affirmation of Commitments needs to become contract between 'ICANN and you'

[Andrew Puddephatt]

I sat in the same meeting in Delhi and here's my additional comments

Fadi said:
Trust in the internet has been "punctured" by recent events
To rebuild a safe and secure internet would require a new form of multi stakeholder governance
No one country  should have disproportionate power and the internet no longer belongs to  the US/the West
The internet needs co-operation more than governance
For the internet to work all parties need to work together on an equal footing – governments, business, CS and scientists
He spoke about needing to find a place to discuss "orphan" issues and that decision making could be multi-stakeholder if new methods of working were used. (By orphan issues he seemed to mean net neutrality, IP liability etc but this was not clear)

The Indian Communications Minister Sibal then said inter-governmentalism would not work (quoting climate change negotiations) and that
Cyberspace requires a new form of administration in which not just governments were stakeholders
And that there was a need to find a way of establishing consensus based multi-stakeholderism and a reformed ICANN central to that.

However Indian officials who spoke later ,including Deputy National Security Advisor Sandhu, talked about a multi-lateral, transparent and democratic form of governance, or balancing multi stakeholderism with multi lateralism

So some confusion there.

I did not have a sense, born out in the subsequent Q&A that Fadi has any idea what the new legal basis for ICANN might be (a Swiss NGO?) or that he has any concrete ideas for a new structure of governance. I'd say he has lit the blue touch paper and is waiting to see what blows up.  But he emphasised, after questions,  that President Rouseff is also looking for a multi-stakeholder solution and not an inter governmental, UN route to solve the problem.  This was repeated throughout the day.

So the way is open for new ideas to put on the table.  I asked him if a strengthened IGF could be part of the overall reform of the environment and he agreed though did not elaborate except to say that he did not envisage creating new institutions.  Some people speculated that he saw ICANN as having a role in taking on the "orphan" issues.


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Date: Thursday, 17 October 2013 17:02
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Subject: [bestbits] Fwd: [Internet Policy] Fadi Chehadé: Affirmation of Commitments needs to become contract between 'ICANN and you'

Please see below - a forward from an ISOC list. The clearest statement I have heard till now from ICANN that US oversight is not acceptable... and that FoC is but a US gov contract

Much more than what many of the civil society are ready to say or commit to.

However, it is easier to talk about a contract between ICANN and people than to come up with the actual means and processes of such a (social) contract. But good to state the principles that then opens up thinking and possible concrete proposals.

parminder

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Subject:        [Internet Policy] Fadi Chehadé: Affirmation of Commitments needs to become contract between 'ICANN and you'
Date:   Thu, 17 Oct 2013 20:16:00 +0530
From:   Vinay Kesari <vinay.kesari at gmail.com><mailto:vinay.kesari at gmail.com>
To:     internetpolicy at elists.isoc.org<mailto:internetpolicy at elists.isoc.org>


Dear all,

Fadi Chehadé, the CEO of ICANN, spoke this evening at the Internet, Mobile & Digital Economy Conference (IMDEC) 2013<http://www.ficci.com/events-page.asp?evid=21654> in New Delhi, and made some very interesting statements, including the following (which I paraphrase):

 *   The Affirmation of Commitments needs to change from being a contract between ICANN and the US Government, to a contract between 'ICANN and you'.
 *   The handling of the IANA function needs to be structured in keeping with the idea that it is the 'root of the world' rather than of any one country.
 *   ICANN headquarters would be split between Los Angeles, Istanbul and Singapore, and hiring in Los Angeles is to be frozen.

I will post links to the video from the event as soon as it is up, as well as a more detailed report on his other remarks, including on Brazil, the role of industry, and multilateralism.

Regards,

Vinay Kesari

https://twitter.com/vinaykesari


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