[bestbits] [governance] JNC's comments on ICANN oversight (non) transition

[Pranesh Prakash]

Dear Suresh,
The worst of the three community proposals is that by the names 
community, which is the only one pushing for a single operator of all 
current IANA functions.  Instead of noting this as a point of 
inconsistency, the ICG has gone with the names proposal as the basis for 
their suggestion.

The simple, workable alternative is that of separating the functions. 
Having this kind of separation is what I see as the natural outcome of 
what community leaders like Paul Wilson have called for:

http://ianacg.org/pipermail/internal-cg_ianacg.org/2015-June/000693.html

Further, the ICG has stated that some IANA functions (tzdata, .int), 
etc., aren't part of the transition since they aren't linked to the NTIA 
contract, and so is not part of their mandate.  So what will happen to 
those?  All in all, this is an incredibly confused exercise, and the ICG 
has done a poor job in bringing clarity to it.

Regards,
Pranesh

Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> [2015-08-28 13:56:22 +0530]:
> Given a surprising lack of consensus on the substantials of several alternate proposals - is there one, especially which maintains the technical structure besides political considerations?
>
> One concrete proposal that civil society AND the technical community can rally behind would be useful if we are not to damn the status quo and then not propose any usable alternate proposal.
>
> So far both proposals I reviewed here - while quite well drafted - are still focused on the political considerations, and quite bare of technical details.
>
>
>> On 28-Aug-2015, at 1:50 PM, Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Parminder,
>> Thank you very much for sending these.  Other than one or two small difference, I find myself almost fully in agreement.
>>
>> The ICG report, which supports the PTI proposal by the names community, is utterly status quoist, and doesn't address the questions of jurisdiction at all.
>>
>> In fact, it doesn't even call out the attempt by ICANN to ensure that PTI will be US-based (a requirement listed in P1. Annex S).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pranesh
>>
>> parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> [2015-08-18 18:38:31 +0530]:
>>> Just Net Coalition has submitted its comments to the process that is
>>> coming up with proposals for what was supposed to be the transition of
>>> ICANN's oversight from the US to a globally legitimate structure, but
>>> the - now more or less final - proposals on the table do nothing of the
>>> sort, and merely serve to cement the status quo.
>>>
>>> We have submitted our comments in two parts
>>>
>>> A overall political commentary can be found at
>>>
>>> https://comments.ianacg.org/pdf/submission/submission19.pdf
>>>
>>> A more technical response to finer issues and processes of the process
>>> is at
>>>
>>> https://comments.ianacg.org/pdf/submission/submission18.pdf
>>>
>>> In sum, we have firmly rejected both, the legitimacy of the process and
>>> the arbitrary manner in which it was conducted, and its result in the
>>> form of the final proposals on the table.
>>>
>>> parminder
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Pranesh Prakash
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>

-- 
Pranesh Prakash
Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society
http://cis-india.org | tel:+91 80 40926283
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