[governance] APC priorities for IGF 2014

[Milton L Mueller]

Anriette
On the whole it is an impressive document, and shows that APC is taking laudable initiatives on a number of fronts.
I was astounded however by the document’s complete lack of familiarity with the ongoing discussion of the IANA transition.
Specifically, your document writes:

Completing the plan to bring The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
functions under Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as
originally documented in the White Paper is an advisable and overdue milestone

One of the key issues here is WHETHER IANA will remain in ICANN or be structurally separated. Typically, only ICANN staff, board members and others with an organizational self-interest in retaining control of IANA view the transition as a simple matter of “bring[ing] the IANA functions under ICANN…”
Has APC actually come up with a deliberate position on this, and if so on what basis? Have you bothered to read any of the discussions of this topic coming from IGP, ccTLD operators, gTLDs, registrars? Are you unaware of the accountability issue raised by the status of IANA?

Milton L Mueller
Laura J and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
Syracuse University School of Information Studies
http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/


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Anriette



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