[governance] "technical community fails at multistakeholderism". really?

[parminder]

On Wednesday 09 October 2013 05:20 AM, John Curran wrote:
>
>
>> <snip>
>
> Again, it is a call for globalization of ICANN and IANA functions, not 
> a plan for
> doing such...  I do believe that we're all using the term 
> globalization to mean
> "free from one specific country's jurisdiction/governance".

Thanks for that clarification. Now that we agree that we are all for 
globalisation of ICANN and IANA function, and are building consensus 
what we mean by such globalisation, and what we dont mean, it is a 
promising start.

>
>> Opening a new office in Africa or China or India is not globalisation 
>> - even US has embassies in all these place, because of which US 
>> cannot be called as having been globalised or internationalised.
>
> Agreed.
> <snip>

> Is the new "Internet Technical Oversight and Advisory Board" a 
> component of
> the 'new UN body', or an distinct entity?

It is not a new UN body. It is standalone. And we propose novel non- or 
semi-political composition of it, or as we call it, a techno- political 
composition. I am cut pasting the entire relevant text below. Advice is 
welcome. As mentioned one can consider other ways of filling the 
membership - say, half the members can be from regional registries, and 
other from technical organisations from countries by rotation.... Many 
such possibilities exist - to globalise ICANN/IANA without exposing it 
to potential political harm.

The following is the text with regard to the proposed 'Internet 
Technical Oversight and Advisory Broad'. We are cognizant that this isnt 
the perfect proposal, but one needs to make a start somewhere.

    This board will replace the US government's current oversight role
    over the technical and operational functions performed by ICANN. The
    membership of this oversight board can be of a techno-political
    nature, /i.e./consisting of people with specialized expertise but
    who also have appropriate political backing, ascertained through a
    democratic process. For instance, the board can be made of 10/15
    members, with 2/3 members each from five geographic regions (as
    understood in the UN system). These members can perhaps be selected
    through an appropriate process by the relevant technical standards
    bodies and/or country domain name bodies of all the countries of the
    respective region. (Other mechanisms for constituting the
    techno-political membership of this board can also be considered.)

    The Internet technical oversight and advisory board will seek to
    ensure that the various technical and operational functions related
    to the global Internet are undertaken by the relevant organizations
    as per international law and public policy principles developed by
    the concerned international bodies. With regard to ICANN, the role
    of this board will more or less be exactly the same as exercised by
    the US government in its oversight over ICANN. As for the
    decentralized Internet standards development mechanisms, like the
    Internet Engineering Task Force, these self organizing systems based
    on voluntary adoption of standards will continue to work as at
    present. The new board will have a very light touch and non-binding
    role with regard to them. It will bring in imperatives from, and
    advise these technical standards bodies on, international public
    policies, international law and norms being developed by various
    relevant bodies.

    For this board to be able to fulfill its oversight mandate, ICANN
    must become an international organization, without changing its
    existing multistakeholder character in any substantial manner. It
    would enter into a host country agreement with the US government (if
    ICANN has to continue to be headquartered in the US). It would have
    full immunity from US law and executive authority, and be guided
    solely by international law, and be incorporated under it.
    Supervision of the authoritative root zone server must also be
    transferred to this oversight broad. The board will exercise this
    role with the help of an internationalized ICANN.

    This board will also advise the afore-mentioned new public policy
    body on technical matters pertaining to the Internet policy making,
    as well as take public policy inputs from it.

(ends)

parminder


>
>>> For example, there is an "IANA Function Contract"...  how would one 
>>> globalize the 
>>> 'IANA oversight' function that is nominally provided today by the 
>>> USG/NTIA?
>> See the above link...... Set up an international body that takes over 
>> this function with no accountability to the US, or any kind of US 
>> jurisdiction... Simple. What other way is there to globalise/ 
>> internationalise something ?
>
> There are many different possible structures and mechanisms, for example,
> you propose a new UN body, an Oversight Board, globalization of ICANN,
> and maintenance/strengthening of the existing IGF.  I can easily imagine
> other methods of solving this problem with different arrangements of 
> bodies
> and mechanisms.
>
> The Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation does not
> propose any particular solution, but only states that several 
> organizations
> which are involved in Internet coordination believe that the 
> globalization of
> ICANN and IANA functions (towards an environment in which all 
> stakeholders,
> including all governments, participate on an equal footing) is a goal 
> worth
> accelerating.
>
> Given your strong expression of concern over the statement, I guess the
> question arises - would you have preferred a statement which indicated 
> that
> the current USG oversight of ICANN and IANA is just fine? That certainly
> would have supported the status quo...
>
> /John
>
>

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