[bestbits] Re: [governance] IGC press release in response to the NTIA announcement of March 14

[Mawaki Chango]

 Hi Fouad,
Thank you for these enlightening comments. That was helpful.

Mawaki


On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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