[governance] draft text on political oversight

[Lee McKnight]

Hi Wolfgang,

While I understand the motivation in giving this level of specificity in terms of political oversight, I think it's playing into the wrong hands.

The more China insists on ignoring you now, the less whatever language coming out of Prepcom matters, and certainly as Milton and Michael have noted there is no consensus on each of your additional points - some maybe but not collectively.  

So if this whole exercise gets derailed as a 'China, Iran and the UN claim control of the Internet' bogeyman - I can already see the CNN live report - (and you see how narrowly Brazil just escaped being in the headline), you don't want to be standing around and seen as possibly aiding and abetting.

So I'd say slow down, pick and choose items for disussion VERY carefully, and postpone to the next scrimmage issues that are not ripe for resolution now. Like how exactly poltiical oversight functions might or might not shift, beyond the consensus that ccTLDs are/should be under soverign control.

If we can leave Geneva with a compromise in favor of the Forum function, and with some langauge on the need for review and reform of oversight, to be worked out in time, that's not a bad outcome.  

There's this not insignificant matter that neither ICANN nor IANA has to do a thing China or the UN tells it to.So while in UN halls the need to kiss up to governments is naturally strong. But out on the net it's not : ) 

Lee

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Syracuse University
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>>> Wolfgang Kleinwächter <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> 09/27/05 9:03 AM >>>
 

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Hi, Avri and I have drafted some language on political oversight. Text
should be read this afternoon. We have to submit it by 2pm. Please have
a look and let us know if we can read it on behalf of the IG caucus or
if we have to invent another stakeholder group.
jeanette


Political Oversight

62b: We recognize that the time has come for a change in the political
oversight of the logical Internet infrastructure. We do not recommend
the creation of a new oversight organization for domain names and IP
addresses. However, we do recommend the following changes with regard to
ICANN:

1. The US Government recommits to handing over its pre-eminent role of
stewardship in relation to ICANN and enters into an adequate
host-country agreement for ICANN.

2. ICANN must ensure full and equal multi-stakeholder participation on
its Board and throughout its organizational structure by the community
of Internet users, private sector and governments.

3. ICANN must ensure that it establishes clear, transparent rules and
procedures commensurate with international norms and principles for fair
administrative decision-making to provide for predictable policy outcomes.

4. ICANN must establish a review process for its decisions in the form
of an independent multi-stakeholder review commission, established on a
case-by-case basis.

5. Once all the conditions listed above are met, the US Government
transfers the IANA function to ICANN.


Three additonal points:

1. ICANN has to be embedded into a set of contractual arrangements with ccTLD Managers and Root Server Operators

2. Transfer IANA function to ICANN would include the formal termination of the second MoU between ICANN and DOC (BTW, what will happen with the CRADA agreement? Any position?)

3. We should call for a reform of the GAC, including a rearrangment of the relationship between GAC and ICANN Baord for cases with a clear public policy dimension (tgoing beyond the "consultation procedure, as fixed under ICANN 2.0 bylaws).

Best
 
w
 


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