[governance] "Oversight"

Tue Jun 12 15:50:07 EDT 2012

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For many weeks the debate about ICANN in this list has been counterfactual in that it does not take into account that more and more processes of ICANN have actually been moved a significant step away from "unilateral US control", by being handed over to Review Teams which operate under the Affirmation of Commitments and do not report to the USG.

Instead, these reviews are reported to a combination of ICANN leadership and the GAC. So far the Accountability and Transparency Review has been finished, delivered, and acted upon. The Whois Review has just been published. The At Large Review has been published and delivered, and being processed. I chair the Stability, Security, and Resilience of the DNS Review Team (SSR-RT) and we are finishing the final report this week.

In all cases a strong enactment of the multistakeholder principle has taken place. As far as I can tell, a large majority of the active participants of the Review Teams have taken very seriously not only their task in the specific Review in which they take part, but also the need to demonstrate convincingly that this scheme can work to the point that it can allay the temptation for an overlay of oversight. These veritable audits, which have to satisfy a very broad community, are far more significant now than the contract compliance checklist under the MoU ever would have been. 

By the way, in the SSR-RT we had to look at the root-server operators and the RSSAC in significant detail, and I can confirm (once again) the impression of them that David Conrad and John Curran have patiently laid out. 

So yes, there are a number of political fiction scenarios - not far from pre-existing realities - in which things can go awry with the USG in the governance of the DNS, IP address allocation policy, and Internet technical protocol parameter registries, but no, absolutely no, there is no way that the alternative is a new overlay of intergovernmental oversight. The alternative lies in focused, heuristic, ethical, knowledgeable and committed action by the Internet community and the emerging multistakeholder paradigm, as has been proven over the years.

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Alejandro Pisanty

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Desde: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] en nombre de David Conrad [drc at virtualized.org]
Enviado el: martes, 12 de junio de 2012 14:25
Hasta: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Asunto: Re: [governance] "Oversight"

Michael,

On Jun 12, 2012, at 12:07 PM, michael gurstein wrote:
> Without commenting on the technical issue being discussed in which I have no
> competence it seems to me as an observer here that the debate seems to be
> between those who are saying let's leave well enough alone and trust us (the
> USG) not to do anything foolish to gum up the Internet works;

To clarify, this isn't an accurate representation of my position (if that was your intent).  A better representation would be "These aren't the droids you're looking for".  Using non-factual horrors a rogue version of the USG could attempt to inflict upon the Internet as justification for giving "oversight control" (whatever that means) to an undefined UN body is, in my view, unhelpful as it distracts from more potentially useful efforts in attempting to create a less-US-centric oversight mechanism of what ICANN actually does do.

Regards,
-drc

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