[governance] IPW - ICANN CEO Wants To Shift “Centre Of Gravity” Away From US

[Chaitanya Dhareshwar]

Unlikely to happen easily without major, major sideeffects. The US is a
heavyweight so no matter who's around the CoG will lean towards it
anyways....

Problem/question is there would need to be one centre of power @ICANN and
which country will hold it?

-C


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> wrote:

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>  ICANN CEO Wants To Shift “Centre Of Gravity” Away From US Published on 9
> April 2013 @ 1:20 am
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> Intellectual Property Watch
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> By Monika Ermert for *Intellectual Property Watch*
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> In an effort to improve internationalisation, the Internet Corporation for
> Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will open hubs in Singapore and
> Istanbul, to serve the Asia-Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa
> respectively. ICANN’s headquarters in Los Angeles will become the hub
> serving the Americas.
>
> The hubs shall share responsibilities for all aspects of ICANN work, CEO
> Fadi Chehade said at the 46th ICANN meeting <http://beijing46.icann.org/>in Beijing.
>
> ICANN leadership would work from the new hubs, and he himself would rotate
> for a year. In order to shift ICANN’s “centre of gravity” away from the
> United States, ICANN also will establish local ICANN engagement centres,
> with the first such centre to be established in Beijing. Not going to China
> would lead ICANN to lose some of its legitimacy, Chehade said.
>
> Observers interpreted the move partly as a reaction to the tensions in the
> international community over internet governance, and applauded the
> Chehade’s promotion for the multi-stakeholder model. Yet at the meeting
> unfolding in Beijing, Chehade´s practical support for that model was
> questioned by stakeholders pointing to the last-minute and poorly consulted
> additions to the much-debated application process for new generic top-level
> domains (TLDs) under ICANN.
>
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