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

[Ian Peter]

Hi John,

You are actually responding to Parminder¹s query here, but thanks for the
input!

Ian



From: John Curran <jcurran at arin.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:54:51 +0000
To: Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
Cc: "governance at lists.igcaucus.org" <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
Subject: Re: [governance] Oversight, was [liberationtech] Chinese preparing
for a "Autonomous Internet"  ?

On Jun 28, 2012, at 10:47 PM, Ian Peter wrote:

> This then brings us to the issue of how to deal with the 'oversight' function
> - defined as dealing with public policy issues concerning CIR management
> (which includes names, numbers and protocols). This issue also pointedly comes
> to the fore from the discussion in the FBI-DEA-IPv6 thread. I am a surprised
> at the lack of clarity even among veterans of this space about who deals with
> such a key public policy issue and how, with clear opposite views whether
> ICANN should be dealing with it or not. We know that important public policy
> issues connecting directly to CIR management will keep on arising in the
> future, and perhaps, multiplying in number. We need to foresight  how to deal
> with this situation. It is not possible to sweep this important issues under
> the carpet. 

Ian - 
 
  Without passing judgement on the current system for technical coordination
  of Internet addresses, I will attempt to describe how it accommodates
public
  policy issues as they are encountered.

  Public policy issues do indeed come up in the policy discussions at the
  Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), but these issues are taken along with
other
  factors (such as technical ability to route IP addresses, business
concerns
  about availability of IP addresses for service providers, civil society
concerns
  about privacy, etc.) and all are considered in the formation of policy.
This has
  led to policies which consider various public policy issues (for example,
in the
  ARIN region, residential privacy concerns cause that information to be
redacted
  from the public Whois directory per community developed policy.)

  Each RIR has its own community which considers policy proposals, and those
  that are supported are adopted via the processes in the region.   While
that can
  (and does) lead to slightly different policies between regions, it is also
a strength
  in that policies that are felt to be important can be adopted by a region
without
  having to await a global policy process.  "Good" policies do tend to get
adopted
  in multiple regions, and global policies are indeed possible if all of the
regions 
  agree to the same policy text.

  At present, there are no policies in the ARIN region which directly
address the 
  matter which the FBI raised regarding potential lack of incentive for
accuracy in
  future IPv6 Whois information.   In fact, there are already policies which
require
  accurate information to be present, but the issue being raising is whether
such
  industry-led self-governance policies will suffice for insuring that the
Whois
  information remains accurate (in the absence of need to obtain new address
  blocks as exists today with IPv4.)

  Considering the public policy issues involved with the potential of a
top-down
  or "regulatory" approach might be necessary, but that type of solution
could
  easily be beyond ICANN's limited mandate of technical coordination.

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN



  


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