[governance] Closed concepts

Wed Mar 17 13:18:34 EDT 2010

It is truly amazing the closed nature of the Internet Governance.  The only answer to the Why? is very bad news.  As a person, I know that when I isolate and do not share my intentions with others this leads down a bad path. It is only amplified when applied to group conscience. The terms "open" Transparent and "accountable" have truly lost all sincere meaning in the last decade. (I must at this point appreciate the NICs)

The Idea of the "closed shop" is just too obviously bad to invoke any sympathy therefor. Whether it be for freedom of Ideas or Freedom for work or Study or Worship isolation is bad. The scariest part of this notion of impenetrable quarantine of thought and debate is what it tells us about those on the inside. It tells us quite clearly that those on the inside are afraid of what is on the outside. Afraid it will weaken their position. Afraid they will have to work harder to learn more. Afraid that their positions will not withstand scrutiny. Afraid of the light.

I do not relish or trust or even want to be near decisions made in fear.  If BoD or lists or forums or conferences are closed it speaks volumes of those closing them.  My buddy basically said; If your light is true and good, let it shine before men.* On the otherhand if your intentions are disrespectful, shameful, ignorant and greedy hide them well.
Eric

* I know he should have said "others" Ok, truth is, that I said that, I paraphrased. Please be happy on this fine Irish day.
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Ruling the Root part II: RPKI and the IP address space 
The Nairobi Board resolutions: painful to read 
Exposed: ICANN Policy staff manipulation of Board 
Civility and Humility: The story of ICANN’s Ombudsman 
A busy two weeks for Internet governance 
CFP: Third International Workshop on Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction 
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Ruling the Root part II: RPKI and the IP address space

The Internet Architecture Board issued a little-noticed statement February 12 that has the potential to revolutionize Internet governance - and not in a good way. The IAB is now claiming that the application of Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to addressing and routing is "a prerequisite for improving the security of the global routing system." What may get lost in all the technical mumbo-jumbo is that RPKI is a technology of control and identification. We need to think long and hard before embarking on a path that would lead to the global centralization of such authority in a single institution's hands.

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The Nairobi Board resolutions: painful to read

The ICANN board issued a fairly large number of resolutions, at the conclusion of its Nairobi meeting.   Give it an A for effort. But on substance? Give them an F. On the .xxx issue, the Board chose to ignore its independent review panel and refused to rectify what was officially determined to be unfair and discriminatory treatment. On the vertical integration issue, it issued a needlessly biased and poorly worded resolution that was an attempt to clarify things but probably did the opposite. There are other gems. We have done the painful work of reading them for you.

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Exposed: ICANN Policy staff manipulation of Board

From Avri Doria's blog: "While in a meeting with Board members, a member of my Stakeholder group had an opportunity to read part of one page of the Policy Staff’s briefing report to the Board from across the table (some of us read documents upside down better the we read right side up.) In this case it was all they could do to refrain themself from standing up and yelling “the staff lies.” Doria goes on to point out how inaccurate and biased these secret board briefings can be and how unfair it is that these critical messages are kept secret.
There is a vital structural issue here: ICANN's board faces too many issues and relies heavily on the policy staff to tell it what is going on. Unfortunately, during the past 5-6 years, the staff has chosen to take sides on policy issues and to favor some constituency groups over others. Often, this is caused by heavy lobbying of the staff by some of the professional, full-time lobbyists who can invest in constantly following and communicating with them. In other cases it is the staff's way of punishing those who were critical of ICANN, especially its policy staff. New CEO Rod Beckstrom has already made an important move to rectify this situation by replacing his policy vice chair with David Olive; it would seem, however, that lower level staff are still mired in the organizational culture established by his predecessor. There is a simple solution to this: make the board briefings public, with the usual exceptions for information considered
 confidential for legal, personal or personnel reasons.

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Civility and Humility: The story of ICANN’s Ombudsman

His behavior last fall during a dispute over the formation of the NCSG confirmed that Frank Fowlie, ICANN’s Ombudsman, is both unhelpful and biased. If the value-add of the Ombudsman’s office is unclear, the negatives are now very clear indeed. About a week ago the Ottawa Citizen published a story about Fowlie’s angry confrontation with a flight attendant after they failed to serve him a meal on a Paris – Montreal flight.
What makes the Air Canada incident important is the way it relates to Fowlie’s campaign for imposing standards of “civil discourse” on ICANN participants. Fowlie’s decision to pursue a dispute resolution process showed that he believed that his behavior, which was neither respectful nor civil according to the people on that airplane, was justifiable under the circumstances. Fowlie lost his temper – and a dispute – over bad airline service. We wonder if he now has a bit more sympathy for the sometimes intemperate language used by people in the ICANN community who think that fundamental rights of free expression or privacy or consumer interests are being lost. The stakes are a bit higher than a missed meal. Unfortunately, Fowlie’s speech at the Nairobi meeting shows that he seems to have learned nothing from this incident.

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A busy two weeks for Internet governance

There is so much going on this week and next week in Internet governance and IGP is so involved that we barely have time to blog about it. Here is a quick summary and some links to more information; it includes tales of ITU and the RIRs, the Council of Europe, ICANN Nairobi, and Google-Italy.

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CFP: Third International Workshop on Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) invites you to participate in its third scholarly workshop to be held in Montreal (QC), Canada, on 30-31 May 2010. This workshop is organized in cooperation with the Canadian Communication Association and Media at McGill, during the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) 2010 Congress week in Montreal. Building on the success of its first two editions, respectively in Paris, France in June 2008 and in Brussels, Belgium in May 2009, the purpose of this third GigaNet workshop is twofold.

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