[governance] Fwd: The US factor in the WSIS needs highlighting as much as the Tunisian factor

[Vittorio Bertola]

Il giorno mer, 02-11-2005 alle 13:38 -0200, Carlos Afonso ha scritto:
> Caro Vittorio,
> 
> Could you be more specific? Sorry, but CS needs to define itself, take 
> clearer positions, and the big stakes are around oversight. "Overall 
> approach" means very little, and regarding the USA, what should we do? 
> Just wait and see, in a Darwinian, evolutionary approach?

I was just forwarding Parminder's message, but, as you're asking for my
opinion, I'll restate it again in short.

I think that our best result (as civil society) would be to end the US
oversight and see it replaced by a form of multistakeholder oversight,
either achieved inside ICANN (with some reforms, ie ICANN 3.0) or
through a multistakeholder entity outside ICANN; of these two, I'd
prefer the first option.

If this result cannot be achieved, then I think that the second best
option would be replacing the US oversight on ICANN with a multilateral
governmental oversight, possibly achieved through an evolution of the
GAC.

In general, this only regards the existing oversight functions over the
root zone of the DNS, and should not imply any extension of the concept
to any other matter. And I agree with others that we should keep the two
concepts - "narrow" and "broad" oversight - clearly separated. "Broad"
oversight is something that should be evaluated on a case by case basis,
issue by issue.

And now, I'm starting to think that the only way to advance this
discussion is by drafting text, and since I didn't get much feedback...
I'll try to do it.
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