[bestbits] Re: [governance] Your key ICANN issues as a user

Fri Jun 20 00:25:39 EDT 2014

Yes, all end users. It is a simple matter of participating. groups and individuals participate. Even governments participate. Just visit the ICANN website. It is public.

ROK

From: Deirdre Williams 
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 8:16 PM
To: Internet Governance ; Ian Peter 
Subject: Re: [bestbits] Re: [governance] Your key ICANN issues as a user

On 19 June 2014 17:51, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

  John, the focus is very much on the narrow “internet community” rather than the broader community of internet users. I think that should change.

In fact the next message to arrive in my mail after Ian's was an ICANN News Alert - Universal Acceptance of TLDs Draft Roadmap  which gives as its Purpose (Brief):  To solicit community comment on draft roadmap for the Universal Acceptance Initiative. 

There are a couple of loose terms in this: "universal" and "community". During the ICANN session at NETmundial I asked who ICANN meant when it uses the term "community". I'm still not sure of the answer. Roosevelt (ROK) in an earlier message in this string wrote "ICANN is about end users". So now I would like to know - all end users or just some of them?

I share Ian's concern about the committee of 27 that he mentions below. Following NETmundial I expected this committee to be inclusive in nature, but in fact it is exclusive in its composition since it indicates very precisely where delegates should come from.
  ...

  As an example I could mention the currently being formed committee of 27 (!) to look at IANA transition, which cant even find one dedicated space for civil society among its members. Although I certainly wouldnt recommend expanding the committee beyond 27 because it is already too large to be efficient, I do think the most likely outcome is going to be a quagmire extending its deliberations way beyond 2015.

It feels very uncomfortable to play dungeons and dragons with language. There are progressively fewer of the words we currently use in these discussions that we can rely on not to commit us to something we didn't intend when we use them. 

Do others share this concern? 

Deirdre 

  ....

  From: John Curran 
  Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 7:23 AM
  To: mailto:governance at lists.igcaucus.org ; Ian Peter 
  Cc: Nnenna Nwakanma ; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net ; members ; africann at afrinic.net ; AfriCS-IG ; Discussion List on African Internet Governance Forum 
  Subject: [bestbits] Re: [governance] Your key ICANN issues as a user

  On Jun 19, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

    ICANN collects Internet taxes from domain name owners. It is a non profit company.

    I would like to see ICANN devote a percentage of its considerable income to addressing social issues associated with the Internet, eg digital divide. 

  Ian - 

     To the extent that ICANN is recovering costs associated with the registry 
     policy development or registry administration, I am not sure it's appropriate
     to characterize them them as "Internet taxes".  

     The use of such proceeds to facilitate global participation in the policy 
     development process, or accountability and transparency review, or 
     similar registry-related capacity-building makes perfect sense, but that
     is probably more focused than the type of activities you are suggesting?

  Thanks,
  /John

  Disclaimer:  my views alone.

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