[governance] Finding IGC voice... again, on NETMundial and beyond.

[Milton L Mueller]

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>"Unilateral oversight by the US government of CIR management is 
> undemocratic and untenable. It should immediately be replaced by 
> an appropriate alternate mechanism where all people of the world 
>have an equal role"

While I don't fundamentally disagree with this as a principle, I don't think it makes any sense to call for the "immediate" replacement of U.S. oversight without having a viable and well thought-out proposal for an alternative. 

There are two proposals on the table: Ian's, which would strengthen ICANN by simply giving it control of IANA, and the IGP proposal, which takes IANA out of ICANN and makes it an independent entity controlled by all the world's TLD registries and root server operators. 

At the very least, a statement from IGC could reference both proposals as something worth considering. Preferably, however, we should have a substantive discussion about the merits of either approach. 


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