[bestbits] Civil Society Letter on IANA Transition

[parminder]

On Wednesday 25 May 2016 06:45 PM, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
>
> Sent from my LG G4
> Kindly excuse brevity and typos
> On 25 May 2016 14:03, "Deirdre Williams" <williams.deirdre at gmail.com
> <mailto:williams.deirdre at gmail.com>> wrote:
> To my mind it is incorrect to suggest that the ICANN community, which
> met in Marrakech in March, is the same thing as the internet community
> of which the ICANN community is a subset.
> >
> SO: Yes that's right; the ICANN community is part of the "internet
> community" but as to the March meeting, and the entire transition
> proposal development process, it was the "internet community"
> developing the proposal but facilitated by ICANN who was assigned the
> task by NTIA.
>

This is promising. Seun, you seem to have a good idea of what is
'Internet community' (also meanwhile, what is ICANN community, so that
we too could differentiate). Can you please share.... thanks, parminder

> >
> This - deliberately? - confusing use of the word "community" has been
> going on for several years.
> >
>
> SO: The definition of "community" in itself is not confusing any
> additional qualifying word to it could be confusing.
>
> Regards
> > I wonder does anyone else consider it to be a matter for concern?
> > Best wishes
> > Deirdre
> >
> > On 25 May 2016 at 04:11, Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org
> <mailto:pranesh at cis-india.org>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >> I recently came across this:
> >> http://bestbits.net/iana-transition/
> >>
> >> However, I never saw its contents being discussed on this list. 
> Did I somehow fail to receive those messages?
> >>
> >> I am quite concerned about the way the letter takes an uncritical
> global North approach to the IANA transition, and refuses to contend
> with the power dynamics at play.
> >>
> >>> The undersigned civil society and public interest groups believe
> that the IANA transition is a positive development for the Domain Name
> System and for the Internet at large, and that the process to develop
> the transition proposal has been a successful expression of
> multistakeholder approaches to Internet decision-making.
> >>
> >>
> >> I have pointed out in the past that this IANA transition process
> fails the requirements of the NetMundial Statement, and was primarily
> led by corporate interests in the US, and men:
> >>
> http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/global-multistakeholder-community-neither-global-nor-multistakeholder
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Pranesh
> >>
> >> --
> >> Pranesh Prakash
> >> Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society
> >> http://cis-india.org | tel:+91 80 40926283
> >> sip:pranesh at ostel.co <mailto:sip%3Apranesh at ostel.co> |
> xmpp:pranesh at cis-india.org <mailto:xmpp%3Apranesh at cis-india.org>
> >> https://twitter.com/pranesh
> >>
> >>
> >> ____________________________________________________________
> >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
> >>      bestbits at lists.bestbits.net <mailto:bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>.
> >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit:
> >>      http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > “The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir
> William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
> >
> > ____________________________________________________________
> > You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
> >      bestbits at lists.bestbits.net <mailto:bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>.
> > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit:
> >      http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits
>
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>      bestbits at lists.bestbits.net.
> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit:
>      http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.igcaucus.org/pipermail/bestbits/attachments/20160525/06b56630/attachment.htm>