[governance] The glacial pace of governments

[Danny Younger]

Vittorio,

The language that you have been attempting to draft
would include governments and IGOs in ICANN's policy
development bodies (the multi-stakeholder approach).

I continue to have strong reservations about the
inclusion of these bodies in policy deliberating
organs owing to the glacial pace at which governments
get things done.  Your language needs a re-write.

For starters, let me point you to the recently posted
cancellation of the GNSO-GAC Joint Session because
governments "have been unable to identify a sufficient
number of government speakers to meet the original
objective of the session, which was to flesh out the
public policy concerns/uses of whois data in the areas
of consumer, privacy and ip protection."  
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg01504.html

With more than 100 countries and international
entities being represented in the GAC, if they can't
obtain even a few speakers to participate in a policy
discussion, then they are not to be considered as
candidates for participation amongst ICANN's
policy-development bodies.

This example, plus the post-comment-period recent
government interventions with respect to the .xxx tld
(which had already been in discussion for years) well
illustrate the fact that governments as entities are
not positioned to work in a timely manner or to honor
established timelines or procedures.  They seem to
think that timelines and procedures may be readily
circumvented by appeal to the DOC or to the Board.

If you want to retain governments and IGOs as
stakeholders in your proposed text, please do so in a
manner which won't couple them to other
policy-formulating organizations that have learned to
work at Internet speed.







	
		
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