[governance] IANA contract to be opened for competitive bidding on November 4 - more history

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

Reading this on my last day as Chair of one of those 'constituencies', the Non Commercial Stakeholder Group, it reads almost like a dream.
After 7 years in the GNSO with its constituency warfare I can't imagine anything nicer than an IETF/ASO like process where individuals argue, discuss and resolve.

But then I rub the sleep from eyes and wonder whether the politics of names being such as it is with all its notions of property, sovereignty and the need to protect rights, required the changes made in Singapore becasue things had already move beyond the rational open dialogue stage already at that point.

But then I look at the insanity of the GNSO with its diremption into opposing Houses composed of opposing Stakeholder Groups put in direct opposition to each other on Every Issue and wonder how this monster can be tamed.

Just my thoughts on beginning another day at ICANN.

cheers,

avri

On 25 Oct 2011, at 00:21, John Curran wrote:

> Indeed. Per the White Paper, the goal was to have "separate, diverse, and 
> robust name and number councils responsible for developing, reviewing, and 
> recommending for the board's approval policy related to matters within each 
> council's competence.  Such councils, if developed, should also abide by 
> rules and decision-making processes that are sound, transparent, protect 
> against capture by a self-interested party and provide an open process 
> for the presentation of petitions for consideration."
> 
> Note the absence of the word "constituency" in the above.  Also note also 
> these councils were envisioned to produce fully developed policy to the 
> ICANN Board for approval, i.e. the Board's primary role was oversight; to 
> make sure that coordination happened among its supporting organizations and
> that any policy was developed by sound and transparent means.  This makes 
> for a nice small ICANN, with a boring job of insuring coordination between 
> the Name and NUmber supporting organizations and occasionally approving 
> consensus policy that emerged from them...
> 
> Alas, we completely departed from original blueprint, when in Singapore the 
> ICANN Board decided that rather than select among initial DNSO proposals 
> received (as called for in its Bylaws), that the Board would instead design 
> the structure of new DNSO based on staff input, and then simply modify the 
> Bylaws to make this possible:
> 
>   <http://www.icann.org/en/meetings/singapore/singapore-statement.htm>
>   <http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/minutes-04mar99.htm>
> 
> The result: instead of having singular DNS Support Organization which would 
> have had to achieve internal consensus in order to recommend policies to the
> Board,  we have an abundance of constituencies all directly vying for the 
> Board's attention to their particular needs. The very concept of having
> "constituencies" implies people aligned behind particular positions, as
> opposed to the White Paper's model of a standards setting body whereby 
> individuals and entities are equally "able to participate by expressing 
> a position and its basis, and having that position considered."
> 
> People ask me: Why is the Address Support Organization (ASO) so quiet? 
> Where is all of the policy development happening?  My answer is always 
> the same: the ASO is operating according the original ICANN model as
> specified by the White Paper and ICANN's bylaws; policy development 
> happens continuously throughout the year in geographically diverse 
> locations with remote participation and open & transparent processes, 
> and it is only the consensus results that the ASO brings forth to the 
> ICANN Board for its consideration.  We coordinate with the technical 
> folks in the IETF when we or they have need, and while it is a complete 
> pain that we need to have complete alignment in order to advance policy,
> you'd be amazed what is does for encouraging actual listening to others
> positions and really considering their views.

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