[governance] for information

françoise f.massit at orange.fr
Mon Jul 28 10:15:46 EDT 2014 

Dear gov at list-ers,
Please find  the link to a summary of the recent Report from the  
French Senate and the  pdf doc :
http://www.senat.fr/fileadmin/Fichiers/Images/commission/MCI_nouvelle_gouvernance_de_l_internet/EUROPE_TO_THE_RESCUE_OF_THE_INTERNET_english_summary.pdf
It's an official Report, but who knows its destiny ???
Best regards,
FMF

Le 28 juil. 14 à 13:28, parminder a écrit :

>
> David
>
> I think that NTIA divesting itself of the IANA authority is a very  
> good thing. However, withdrawal of direct executive control  
> over      the root zone is hardly enough. The root zone should be  
> free from all legal and legislative controls of any one country,  
> including any possibility of unilateral application any such control  
> in the future. This is the single most important issue with regard  
> to determining where should the IANA authority now vest.
>
> The reason I consider the NTIA transition process to be a sham is  
> that its framing of the IANA issue is deliberately misleading.  
> It      misleadingly declares IANA 'function' to be  a merely  
> clerical one. This is such an affront to the global community which  
> knows very well that for the last 15 years or so the single most  
> prominent geopolitical issue in global Internet governance has been  
> the issue of a single country's oversight of the Internet,  
> representing in its IANA authority.
>
> How can this major political issue be rendered as a clerical and  
> technical issue by a simple sleigh of hand. This to me is in fact  
> cheating.
>
> However, the IANA process is being able to fool only those who are  
> ready or even eager to be fooled. It does not actually take away one  
> of the major global IG issues from the table. We all know that IANA  
> authority will now be handed over to ICANN. Yes, US leaving the  
> executive control over IANA is good. However, ICANN cannot be left  
> politically unsupervised. (In fact, US jurisdiction will continue to  
> undertake ICANN's political/ legal oversight.) ICANN should be  
> incorporated under international law, giving it full immunity from  
> US jurisdiction, and be put under clear rules based oversight of an  
> appropriate global body, which need not be typical inter-governmental.
>
> And, yes, people have given specific institutional models to achieve  
> this. See for instance the submission of Just Net Coalition to  
> NetMundial at http://content.netmundial.br/contribution/democratising-global-governance-of-the-internet/164 
>  . Specifically see point 3 of the proposed institutional roadmap.
>
> regards
> parminder
>
>
>
> On Monday 28 July 2014 12:13 AM, David Conrad wrote:
>> Parminder,
>>
>> On Jul 27, 2014, at 1:36 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>  
>> wrote:
>>> I dont see why we should not already be seeking such a body
>> No one is stopping you (or whoever 'we' is in the above). You (or  
>> whoever 'we' is in the above) just need to come up with something  
>> that is at least as trusted by resolver operators of the world as  
>> the current system, then convince those operators to make use of  
>> that zone maintenance/signing/distribution system.
>>
>> My suspicion is that this will be a hard sell for a variety of  
>> reasons, however the first step is to actually come up with a  
>> proposal that resolver operators (not politicians) might look at  
>> and decide if they want to play along.
>>
>>> In fact we now already have a US court decision to sieze .ir from  
>>> the root file.
>> As far as I am aware, despite that court decision, .IR remains in  
>> the root and nothing has changed with respect to its registration  
>> information.
>>
>>> IANA transition issue is supposed to be basically about these huge  
>>> current and impending problems.
>> My understanding of the transition of the stewardship of IANA is  
>> that it is about removing NTIA from its current role. That seems to  
>> be a more focused scope that what you believe the IANA transition  
>> is supposed to be about. I'm unsure where you derived your view of  
>> the IANA transition, but you might want to reread http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions 
>> .
>>
>>> The fact that we have a complete sham being carried out right now  
>>> in the name of IANA transition is something at least civil society  
>>> should sit up and reflect about...
>> As far as I can tell, NTIA and the various folks involved in the  
>> transition appear to be are quite serious about wanting to remove  
>> NTIA from its current role. I'm unsure why you would consider it a  
>> 'sham' unless of course you're accusing the transition participants  
>> of not pursuing your personal view of the transition. If that is  
>> indeed the case, then I suspect the problem does not really lie  
>> with them.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -drc
>>
>
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