[governance] Roadmap for globalizing IANA

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

I am sure you can find broad consensus for this Milton and am glad to +1 
it, but there are too many devils in the details here.

If you end all political oversight that is a tough sell beyond that power 
abhors a vacuum. So I am afraid this won't get as much traction as it should.



On 3 March 2014 7:33:21 PM Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

> Dear all:
> Today IGP released an innovative proposal to resolve the 15-year 
> controversy over the United States government's special relationship to the 
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). 
> http://www.internetgovernance.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/ICANNreformglobalizingIANAfinal.pdf
>
> The proposal, which involves removing root zone management functions from 
> ICANN and creating an independent and neutral private sector consortium to 
> take them over, will be presented at the Singapore ICANN meeting March 21, 
> and has also been submitted to the "NETMundial" Global Multistakeholder 
> Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance in São Paulo, Brazil, April 23 
> and 24.
>
> We propose four basic principles to guide the reform of the IANA functions: 
> 1. Keep the IANA function clerical; separate it from policy; 2. Don't 
> internationalize political oversight: end it; 3. Align incentives to ensure 
> the accuracy and security of root zone maintenance; 4. De-link 
> globalization of the IANA function from broader ICANN policy process 
> reforms. Even if there are quibbles about the details of the proposal, we 
> look forward to gaining agreement on those principles, and are willing to 
> entertain any proposals that embody them.
>
>
> Milton Mueller
> Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
> http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/
>
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