[governance] ITU vs. ICANN

[Jeanette Hofmann]

On 14.10.2010 16:51, John Curran wrote:
> On Oct 14, 2010, at 12:02 AM, Karl Auerbach wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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

As Karl mentions, the RIR approach does not work in all policy areas. 
The DNS, for example, attracts very diverse and antagonistic interests. 
While the RIRs have every reason to be happy that there "narrow subject 
area" approach works out for the address space, I don't think one can 
generalize this as a model for all IG related areas.

jeanette
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