[governance] CONSENSUS CALL - JPA statement

[Hakikur Rahman]

YES for me and looking forward to their realizations.

Best regards,
Hakikur Rahman

At 10:54 PM 6/5/2009, Ian Peter wrote:
>Below is the final statement we propose to send 
>to DOC (and need to submit by June 8). Please 
>indicate YES or NO as regards your support for 
>this statement – if you have already indicated 
>in the previous draft a YES, there is no need to 
>vote again (in the interests of email flow). At 
>this stage I am assuming we have a consensus for 
>this unless strong objections are raised in the next 48 hours.
>
>At this stage no amendments can be accepted 
>which changes the meaning or emphasis of the 
>text. However we can certainly consider simple 
>changes that clarify the expression if you feel strongly about them.
>
>Thank you everyone for your participation!
>
>DRAFT FOLLOWS
>
>
>The Internet Governance Caucus is a global 
>coalition of civil society and non governmental 
>organisations and individuals actively involved 
>the UN’s Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 
>process. Formed during the lead up to the World 
>Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), our 
>mission is to provide a forum for discussion, 
>advocacy, action, and for representation of 
>civil society contributions in  Internet 
>governance processes. We have several hundred 
>members, with a wide spread of geographic 
>representation; more about our coalition can be found at www.igcaucus.org.
>
>We are thankful for the opportunity to comment 
>on the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) with ICANN, 
>and  respectfully submit as  follows.
>
>In responding to your call for comments, we are 
>mindful of the WSIS principles, which " 
>recognize that Internet governance, carried out 
>according to the Geneva principles, is an 
>essential element for a people-centred, 
>inclusive, development-oriented and 
>non-discriminatory Information Society”. We also 
>recognise the need for high levels of global 
>co-operation from all stakeholder groups to 
>ensure Internet stability and security.
>
>On your question as regards the future of the 
>JPA - The IGC firmly believes that global 
>co-operation will be enhanced by a transition 
>beyond the JPA to a situation where all 
>stakeholders feel that they have equitable 
>arrangements for participation, that ICANN is 
>subject to due process procedures and is 
>accountable to all stakeholders. Therefore, the 
>IGC believes that merely extending the current 
>JPA arrangement is not a lasting viable solution.
>
>  Some of us believe the JPA should be ended 
> now, as it is an ineffective mechanism to deal 
> with the problems that must be resolved to 
> place ICANN on a viable long-term path forward. 
> On the other hand, some of us believe that a 
> time-limited extension of the JPA might be the 
> most effective means to ensure that ICANN does take on board necessary changes.
>
>Irrespective of when the JPA actually ends 
>however, the IGC believes that it should be 
>replaced by a new global accountability 
>framework, the development of which should 
>commence as soon as possible in an open, 
>multistakeholder, transparent and inclusive process.
>
>Also irrespective of whether the JPA continues 
>or not, we believe that certain principles 
>outlined below need to be embedded in ICANN’s 
>operation. We believe these should be covered by 
>an undertaking by ICANN to perpetuate in its 
>constitution, by laws, or some similar 
>accountability mechanism, the principles which 
>follow. The principles need to be embedded in 
>such a way as to ensure they cannot easily be 
>changed to exclude any stakeholder group. The 
>principles which need to be permanently embedded are:
>
>·      bottom up co-ordination
>
>
>·      balanced multi stakeholder 
>representation, including civil society interests and Internet users
>
>
>·      ensuring the stability of the Internet
>
>
>·      transparency
>
>
>·      appropriate accountability mechanisms
>
>
>·      continuing evolution of an effective and 
>appropriate governance model which is 
>multilateral, multistakeholder, democratic, and transparent
>
>
>·      decision making driven by the public interest
>
>We also propose to replace "private sector 
>management" with multistakeholder management, 
>which has evolved from the World Summit on the 
>Information Society and the Internet Governance 
>Forum process which the US Government has 
>supported, and which is an important facet, we 
>believe, of effective internet governance  arrangements.
>
>We think the establishment of firm principles to 
>guide the evolution of a model is the 
>appropriate way to proceed. This should 
>explicitly recognize that ICANN is a global 
>governance institution with regulatory authority 
>over an industry (domain name registration) and 
>over critical resources (IP addresses, root 
>servers and addresses). The standards of due 
>process, rights, and accountability that apply 
>to ICANN must be developed with these facts in mind.
>
>
>
>Ian Peter and Ginger Paque, Co-coordinators, for 
>the Internet Governance Caucus
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