[governance] critique of the IBSA proposal

[McTim]

parminder,

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:39 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
<snip>

> In face of sudden flurry of emails claiming governments of the South do not
> want to discuss EC openly, especially at the IGF, I responded by showing
> that it was not governments of the South but many other actors who blocked/
> resisted such an attempt. Is it not a fact? I also said  that *many* civil
> society actors now suddenly very alive to the need of dicussing EC in the
> IGF, did not seem so eager earlier on, when attempts to get the EC subject
> on IGF agenda was made. This is also a fact. and I needed to state these


To avoid confusion, I think you will have to name names.


> facts in face of this new onslaught about the evilness of developing country
> governments (and, perhaps, also other civil society members) when it was
> simply not based on facts (and, more importantly for me, served the agenda
> of protecting the global IG status quo).


Can we please be honest and perhaps less diplomatic in our language about this.

What we are really talking about is the USG -->IANA contract.  Is this
not what EC is really all about?
(was this not the reason the IGF was created as well?, some saw it as
a vehicle to take the discussion forward, while others saw it as a way
to neutralise the issue).

My view on this has changed slightly since the USIGF where I learned
(from a hallway discussion with someone who was involved during the
Clinton Admin days) that <paraphrase> "the USG never intended for
ICANN/IANA to float free".</paraphrase>

So if this is the case, then I doubt even a UN treaty will shake them
loose.  I can't see any US administration signing that treaty when
they (or there party) are facing elections, which is all the time.

Doesn't it make more sense for us to focus our considerable time on
being productive as a Caucus on  ICANN activities if we are concerned
about CIRs, or am I just tilting at a windmill?


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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