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

Suresh Ramasubramanian suresh at hserus.net
Tue Mar 4 01:21:13 EST 2014


How many of the sort of candidates you suggest would be technically qualified to provide adequate oversight?

And when they do have that technical qualification - there's a high enough chance that they'll very likely be ccTLD operators.  [Who vary in quality too].

--srs (iPad)

> On 04-Mar-2014, at 11:19, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On the other hand, my organisations and 45 others had suggested a Technical Oversight Board which will consist of 2-3 persons from each geo- political region, these people being from key technical academic institutions, and a method selection/ election from among possible candidates from each region could be devised... Plus, one member from each region could come from the respective RIR...
> 
> This is a much more democratic spread then getting root operators as ICANN's overseers (an overwhelming number from the US, and all from developed countries) , or even TLD operators, who are mostly from the US, apart from the root operator/ TLD owners proposal suffering from the problem of those regulated overseeing the regulators....
> 
> parminder
> 
> 
>> On Tuesday 04 March 2014 06:06 AM, parminder at itforchange.net wrote:
>>>  I do think it's worth having a bullet on the IANA issue
>>> --internalization/
>>> internationalization/ globalization-- as part of an IGC submission.
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> This sounds to me like a good compromise under the current time
>>> constraints.
>> I am unable to agree to a model where those who are supposed to be
>> regulated supervise the regulators.... .(next, telcos supervise FCC and
>> such telecom regulators!?) I would even call it weird.
>> 
>> parminder
>> 
>>> 
>>>> Preferably, however, we should have a substantive discussion about the
>>>> merits of either approach.
>>>> 
>>> Do you mean by the March 8th deadline? Otherwise we may certainly have
>>> this
>>> discussion not only for a possible oral contribution during Sao Paulo
>>> proceedings but also for potential input in further processes beyond Sao
>>> Paulo (I'm sure the NETMundial will net be the end of all this search for
>>> the future of Ig.)
>>> 
>>> Mawaki
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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