[governance] Kuwait IT Society Statement Regarding the NTIA Announcement

[Qusai AlShatti]

*Kuwait Information Technology Society Statement *
*Regarding The *
*NTIA Announcement for Its Intent to Transition Key Internet Domain Name
Functions*

27 March 2014

Kuwait Information Technology Society (KITS) welcomes the U.S. National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announcement on
its intent to transition key Internet domain name functions to the global
multistakeholder community. The announcement represents a major step toward
an independent global internet governance framework for the Internet Eco
System and its critical resources.

KITS welcomes further the steps taken by the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to globalize its presence and the recent
establishment of its regional offices around the world to improve its
outreach and engagement with all Internet stakeholders groups. These steps
are regarded as a positive development toward the internationalization of
the ICANN.

The NTIA announcement, in its request for the ICANN to convene global
stakeholders to develop a transition proposal, represents an opportunity
for all multistakeholders groups from different regions of the world to get
involved in this process, to reflect their views and to contribute actively
to the transition proposal. The emphasis of the NTIA announcement on
supporting a multistakeholder process and maintaining the security,
stability, and resiliency of the Internet DNS is another positive
development that will lead to a broad community support for the expected
transition plan. Within that respect, it is important to emphasize that the
outcome of this process should emphasize that such a transition should be
evolutionary and the daily operational activities of the Internet should
remain a private technical function not influenced by any government or
inter-governmental organization.

KITS, among many, has noticed that ICANN in the past years and up to
present has taken many steps to improve its bottom up approach in
developing its Internet policies and procedures. ICANN and the Internet
technical community made significant efforts supporting and seeking
multistakeholder engagement to develop these polices and procedures.  We
all praise these efforts and we look forward that such approach will be
further enhanced in the future by the ICANN especially in developing the
transition plan. We welcome the ICANN statement in recognizing that all
stakeholders are "equal partners".

KITS is looking forward for its engagement in this process and it
encourages all stakeholders groups from the developing countries to be
actively involved in it. In particular, KITS urges all stakeholders groups
from the Arab World (governments, private sector, civil society, academics
and technical community) to engage and substantially contribute to this
important process and its outcome which represents a turning point in the
history of the Internet.
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