[governance] FBI, DEA, IPv6 & ICANN

[John Curran]

On Jun 27, 2012, at 3:32 PM, c.a. wrote:

> Hi John, simple: Rirs and supporting/advisory organizations are part of the Internet governance body called Icann (unless the number orgs have become fully independent and Icann no longer oversees then, which is not what I know),

The Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) _predate_ and indeed are 
independent of ICANN, although the RIRs and ICANN have agreed by 
Memorandum of Understanding that the RIRs should participate in 
the ICANN model for purposes of technical coordination in global 
policy development for Internet number resources.  This coordination
includes defining the relationship between the Internet addressing 
community (represented by the RIRs and their nearly 15000 members) 
and ICANN, as well as defining mechanisms for recommending for the 
recognition of new RIRs to the ICANN Board.  The RIRs coordinate 
collectively via the Number Resource Organization (NRO) and the 
NRO fulfills the role, responsibilities and functions of the 
eeee Address Supporting Organization as defined within the ICANN Bylaws.

As true membership organizations for all those using IP address
space, the RIRs have very strong validity as representative 
governance organizations, and each has committed to transparent 
policy development processes which are open to all.

> so since this is a govenance issue which might gravely affect privacy, neutrality and other rights' issues, I thought it proper to direct the question to Icann itself.

The question is most appropriately referred to each RIR community 
which is discussing the issue.  There may be regional policy making 
in this area, or even global policy making if sufficient consensus 
is present.  If global policy making occurs, then the role of the 
community-elected ASO Address Council is to review to make sure 
that the same policy was adopted in all regions, that processes 
providing for open and transparent development were followed, and 
then to recommend the global policy for ratification by the ICANN 
Board.

In fact, this particular issue of accuracy of Whois once we move 
to IPv6 is being already being discussed in the ARIN region, simply
because that's the region where it was raised.  No policy proposals 
have been made (and it should be noted that ARIN's existing Whois 
policy already requires that Internet service providers record their 
delegations into the public Whois today, but there is concern that
policy alone might not suffice to provide sufficient incentives.)

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
AIRN


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