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

[McTim]

Hi Ian,

On 3/11/12, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
> 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.

Do you reject the idea that a fully internationalised, representative
ICANN Board can fulfil this oversight function?


 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.

and pigs MIGHT fly!

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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