[bestbits] US Control over ICANN

[Pranesh Prakash]

Dear all,
In 2005 at WSIS, here are some of the demands made by the Civil Society 
Internet Governance Caucus:

> “ICANN will negotiate an appropriate host country agreement to replace its California Incorporation, being careful to retain those aspects of its California Incorporation that enhance its accountability to the global Internet user community.
> "ICANN's decisions, and any host country agreement, must be required to comply with public policy requirements negotiated through international treaties in regard to, inter alia, human rights treaties, privacy rights, gender agreements and trade rules. …
> "It is also expected that the multi-stakeholder community will observe and comment on the progress made in this process through the proposed [Internet Governance] Forum."

https://www.itu.int/net/wsis/docs2/pc3/contributions/sca/hbf-29.doc

Do the IGC membership disavow this stand?

And what do the membership of allied civil society groupings like Best 
Bits think about this, given that not just ICANN but even the new 
"Post-Transition IANA" is currently set to be incorporated as a 
California corporation?

~ Pranesh

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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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