[governance] Fwd: Re: draft text on political oversight

[Izumi AIZU]

It was read by Jeannete, but not as CS or even CS Internet Governance
caucus statement, but on behalf of her organization.

OF course, she was called on by the chair as the Civil Society, but
I think her interntion was clear.

izumi

At 10:04 05/09/27 -0400, Milton Mueller wrote:


> >>> Milton Mueller 09/27/05 10:01 AM >>>
>Some comments:
>This is not an acceptable statement to me, although it is close and I
>won't be upset if you read it as IGC. Key questions that you have not
>thought through:
>
>Who decides when "full and equal multi-stakeholder participation"
>exists in ICANN?
>
>Who decides when ICANN has "clear, transparent rules and
>procedures commensurate with international norms and principles for
>fair
>administrative decision-making"?
>
>Case by case establishment of a review commission is a bad idea and
>won't work. ICANN's current "independent" review commission (appointed
>by ICANN) has been a complete failure. Who appoints this review
>commission?
>
>You can't just duck these issues.
>
>I will suggest some language changes in the next message, if it is not
>too late.
>
>Dr. Milton Mueller
>Syracuse University School of Information Studies
>http://www.digital-convergence.org
>http://www.internetgovernance.org
>
>
> >>> Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wz-berlin.de> 09/27/05 7:31 AM >>>
>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.
>
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