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[Adam Peake]

We seem to be struggling with "oversight" at the moment.

I suggest that the caucus endorses the paper by the Internet 
Governance Project and use that as basis for our discussion about 
ICANN.  Personally, I think it's an excellent paper.

This is *not* about Internet Governance broadly (i.e. the working 
definition provided by WGIG and adopted during prepcom 3). Only about 
ICANN, what the paper calls "Narrow oversight refers to the policy 
supervision of ICANN and its administration of Internet identifiers."

I would be interested to hear opinions on this.

Can you support this paper?

Thanks,

Adam



At 11:47 AM -0500 11/1/05, Milton Mueller wrote:
>=================
>Political Oversight of ICANN
>=================
>
>The Internet Governance Project releases a new paper clarifying the
>controversies around "oversight" of ICANN.
>
>  http://dcc.syr.edu/miscarticles/Political-Oversight.pdf
>
>We explain why WSIS must separate discussion of governments' role in
>setting policy for all Internet issues from discussion of the narrower
>problem of ICANN's oversight.
>
>An analysis of the contractual instruments used by the U.S. to
>supervise ICANN shows how the problem of U.S. unilateral oversight can
>be addressed in a way that is both politically feasible and avoids
>threatening the stability or freedom of the Internet.
>
>The paper can be downloaded here:
>http://dcc.syr.edu/miscarticles/Political-Oversight.pdf
>
>www.internetgovernance.org
>

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