[governance] Present draft does not consider 'real oversight options'

[Avri Doria]

hi,

On 7 nov 2005, at 03.04, Parminder wrote:

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> But that precisely is the big question. We cant say we have done  
> everything else, only this little detail is left. The whole issue  
> of political oversight hinges on sorting this question. Please see  
> my other mail on this issue to the IG list. We cant submit a CS  
> position without sorting out and agreeing on this ‘mother of issues’.
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> If we can agree on having a legitimate political body do the  
> external oversight, after it is taken away from the US  – then I am  
> in complete agreement with all the text in the draft on the needed  
> reform in ICANN…..

I think this is exactly the point we cannot come to agreement on.  We  
have those who insist on no government external oversight, those who  
are willing to allow some government over sight as peers to other  
stakeholders, and those who would hand full political oversight over  
to governments or inter-governmental organizations.  I do not believe  
we can resolve that issue and don't think we can make any  
recommendations on it.

I did have the hope, that perhaps we could agree on the degree and  
form of external political oversight without needing to actually  
decide on who would wield it.

Additionally, I don't see how it can be taken away from the USG  
except by creation of a new domain name system. For the current DNS,  
I think we need to find a solution that they can accept aand  
willingly hand over control to.  I think that this real-politic has  
to constrain the solution space we explore.

a.
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