[governance] Potential IGC letter to US gov (was Re: NET NEUTRALITY AND MORE)

[Mawaki Chango]

Hi Bill


On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 1:18 PM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:

> Hi Mawaki
>
> ...
>
> 1. Governments have no particular role to play: the authoritative body to
> which ICANN will commit to in an AoC type agreement will be a
> multistakeholder one where all stakeholders are represented on equal
> footing, government being just one of the stakeholders. (This seems more
> like what is implied in that proposed solution.) In the best of worlds, I
> can go with this assuming that sound mechanisms are found to fairly
> distribute representation across stakeholder groups and regions.
>
> 2. Governments have a particular role to play: the very purpose of the GAC
> assumes that as well as the current role of USG/DoC since its position for
> ICANN oversight is held by USG alone not a multistakeholder body (i.e. USG
> surrounding itself with a sample of other stakeholders to collectively
> carry out the oversight function.) Therefore the next step would just be
> about extending that unique governmental mission so far in the hands of a
> single government to a body representing the governments of the world.
>
>
> Hmm…I wonder how hard this binary has to be.  How about if they play a
> particular but in most dimensions equal role?
>


I guess the devil remains, as always, in the detail and ingenuity will be
needed right from here on in order to craft the appropriate language that
would satisfy all stakeholders, which will provide that, while they may get
to have specific and different roles, those are "in most dimensions equal."

For now we can only look forward to that moment of "reformation" (or
rather, what is called in French "refondation") of global internet
governance institution.
Best,

Mawaki

p.s. just for the record, a clarification to my last sentence at point 1 in
the previous message --should read as follows: I can go with this assuming
that sound mechanisms are found to fairly distribute representation not
only across stakeholder groups but also across regions within each
stakeholder group.

>
> To which 'position 1' may respond: Well, no! That arrangement may have
> been necessary at the early stage of ICANN experiment till certain
> maturity. Now we have reached that time where we need to move forward with
> an affirmative and autonomous multistakeholder structure, etc. And that's
> where all the ingenuity of the actors involved will be needed to get to a
> consensus or at least an agreement.
>
>
> No question, ingenuity will be needed.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
>
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> On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 1:46 PM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>wrote:
>
>> Hi Mawaki
>>
>> On Jun 1, 2013, at 12:18 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Would a multilateral AoC between ICANN and GAC make sense?
>>
>>
>> I'd argue a multistakeholder one evolved from the current structure if/as
>> greater confidence and trust are built would be better.  This has been a
>> subject of some consideration in relevant capitals, IGF sessions, etc.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Bill
>>
>
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