[governance] Cyber Dialogue 2012 / Conference details now online ...

Carlos A. Afonso ca at cafonso.ca
Sun Mar 11 12:53:03 EDT 2012


OK, let us see MM's response, but for my part McT clarified the ASO-NRO 
logic. After creation of NRO, I wondered why ASO was still in place, now 
I see there a close intertwining.

--c.a.

On 03/11/2012 01:38 PM, McTim wrote:
> On 3/11/12, Milton L Mueller<mueller at syr.edu>  wrote:
>> For those interested, I was invited to contribute a paper on some aspect of
>> stewardship, and chose IP addressing.
>> http://www.cyberdialogue.citizenlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/2012papers/CyberDialogue2012_Mueller.pdf
>
> a few factual innaccuracies:
>
> "The NRO’s status as the ASO in ICANN’s cor-
> porate governance structure allows the RIRs’
> chief executives to appoint people directly to
> the ICANN board, and also allows it to place
> people on ICANN’s nominating committee,"
>
>
> is incorrect, it's the ASO AC that actually chooses see:
>
> http://aso.icann.org/people/icann-board-elections/2012-elections/
>
> and:
>
> "While some of the RIRs
> still have some available supplies"
>
> seems to indicate that some RIRs do not.  I don't think this is the case.
>
> and:
>
> 'The ASO of ICANN is nothing more than the
> NRO, and the NRO is nothing more than a com-
> bination of the staff and CEOs of the RIRs.'
>
> This is not true either.  The ASO AC are elected folk from the RIR
> communities.  They make the decisions, the NRO act as the secretariat
> to support them.
>
> and:
>
> "With the Internet well established as the
> dominant data communications protocol and
> a globalized institutional framework in place
> (ICANN) there is no longer any political reason
> to delegate address allocation to regions. "
>
> There is, folks in different regions still want to have regional
> policies even after v4 depletion.
>
> Come to the Gambia in May and tell the AfriNIC Policy Development
> Working Group that we will be obsolete after v6 deployment, I'm sure
> most would disagree.
>
>

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