[governance] NTIA says ICANN "does not meet the requirements"for IANA renewal

[Ian Peter]

Here's my Sunday afternoon take on this.

Firstly, I am glad to see that the Internet is still working whatever NTIA
or ICANN does or has done. That puts this in its perspective.

Secondly, all of this raises higher questions of internet governance.

NTIA is doing a fairly typical USG global politics reaction here - do it our
way or else. Their right to do so is actually very questionable, and in
reality it is because there is a vacuum in internet governance and trust of
any multistakeholder body that this is even an issue at all.

Whether you interpret Internet history to read that USG has some sort of
right to unilaterally judge on such issues or not, it's absolutely certain
that such a unilateral right has become obsolete with a global internet and
we need to look at moving the NTIA function elsewhere, not the IANA
functions.

That can only be done through a representative global body. Now neither NTIA
or ICANN wants that to be ITU and that isnt going to happen. So we can put
that old fear to bed. But we still have to come up with a global structure
that can have some authority here.

To me the possibilities lie with a strengthening of Internet Governance
Forum, currently not able to much at all because of a lack of funding. You
will recall that IGF was initially opposed by both ICANN and ISOC - in
latter days they have seen something of its merits, but despite their joint
wealths their contributions to IGF are a pittance. Perhaps if both ISOC and
ICANN committed say 10% of what they currently spend on internal staff
benefits and fares to meetings for their closest supporters to provide IGF
with a decent secretariat and funding for civil society and others who need
support to attend meetings, the power and bargaining position of NTIA to
rule on such issues might be replaced by a truly global body.

But if we continue with the myth that the internet community knows best, and
is beholden to no one, I'm afraid that NTIA will fill the Internet
governance gap. I don't see whose interests that serves.

Ian Peter



From: "Matthias C. Kettemann" <matthias.kettemann at uni-graz.at>
Reply-To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>, "Matthias C. Kettemann"
<matthias.kettemann at uni-graz.at>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:01:17 +0100
To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
Subject: Re: [governance] NTIA says ICANN "does not meet the
requirements"for IANA renewal

   I have done a bit of thinking and writing about what the NTIA decision
tells us about Internet Governance and the multi-stakeholder approach.
 
 In brief: Is the NTIA decision a good thing for multistakeholderbased human
rights-sensitive Internet Governance?
 
 It is, if it leads to more accountability in the next application of ICANN,
which is sure to follow.
 It isn't, if it leads to more governmental oversight in defining the global
public interest vis-a-vis the web.
 
 For more details, see http://goo.gl/d5GI8
 
 Cheers
 Matthias
 
 
 Am 10.03.2012 22:32, schrieb Karl Auerbach:
>  
> On 03/10/2012 11:12 AM, michael gurstein wrote:
> 
>  
>>  
>> Perhaps the next IGF should have some sessions focusing on the nature of,
>> and a definition for "the global public interest".
>>  
>  
> 
> Might I suggest the following as a starting point?
> 
> + Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way
>   that is privately beneficial without being publicly
>   detrimental.
> 
>    - The burden of demonstrating public detriment shall
>      be on those who wish to prevent the private use.
> 
>        - Such a demonstration shall require clear and
>          convincing evidence of public detriment.
> 
>    - The public detriment must be of such degree and extent
>      as to justify the suppression of the private activity.
> 
> This is from http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000059.html
> 
>  --karl--
> 
>  
 
 

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