[governance] [liberationtech] Chinese preparing for a "Autonomous Internet" ?

[David Conrad]

On Jun 25, 2012, at 11:30 AM, c.a. wrote:
> The "IANA process" goes through NTIA, David. NTIA=USG.

Indeed. As I tried to explain in an earlier note, IANA receives requests from TLD administrators, verifies the requests are valid and conforms to documented policies then forwards those requests on to NTIA for authorization.  NTIA verifies ICANN followed the documented policies in processing the request.  Once NTIA authorizes those requests, they are forwarded to Verisign for implementation. 

You and Parminder apparently believe the .IQ case is a smoking gun of the US government inappropriately "abusing" its oversight role with regards to root management.  My understanding of the .IQ case (which may be wrong) is that the redelegation request for .IQ never even got to the US government for them to abuse their oversight role, rather the request got bogged down in the IANA processes due to difficulties establishing the will of the Internet community in Iraq.  If you have evidence to the contrary, please present it.

> What is your role in Icann, BTW?

I'm a member of ICANN's Security & Stability Advisory Council. Perhaps more relevantly to this discussion, I was IANA general manager from Nov 2005 to Jul 2010 (give or take a few months here and there for various reasons) as well as ICANN's VP of IT/Research for about half that period towards the end of my time there. My (slightly outdated) bio can be found at http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/biographies-15jun12-en.htm. Hope that helps.

Regards,
-drc


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