[governance] ITU vs. ICANN

[John Curran]

On Oct 14, 2010, at 12:02 AM, Karl Auerbach wrote:
> 
> It has long been my sense that one of the ways we can improve our approach to internet governance is to divide our goals so that we can shrink wrap a narrowly tailored, tightly defined body of governance around each one of those goals.  We would find, I assert, that in many cases that the "governance" of an issue would be largely a clerical matter that rarely, if ever would cause debate or concern - consider for instance most of the protocol parameter assignments made by IANA.  There would, of course, be a few nuggets, such as TLD policy, that would be real hard to handle; but they would be easier to handle then the kind of generalized, expansive policymaking that has so bedeviled ICANN.

100% agreement here. Having a group focused on fairly narrow subject 
area encourages discussion of the actual issues (both pro & con) of 
proposed policy, which in turns empowers all voices which can add
to the deliberations and help the group reach informed consensus.

/John


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