[governance] [govenance] The domain name racket goes on

[parminder]

On Saturday 27 September 2014 07:45 PM, parminder wrote:
> snip
>>
>>
>> I would be curious to see which developing countries make this 
>> assertion.
>
> See enclosed response from India to ICANN's process of collection of 
> views on the IANA transition process. It say clearly that any 
> transition arrangement should "have a proper international legislative 
> authority". And of course India earlier made the CIRP proposal which 
> sought inter-gov oversight of ICANN. Dont know why continued ignorance 
> should be professed about this and many other stated positions from 
> other developing countries.
>
>
>> From my reading of things it is not countries but views of certain 
>> groups and can hardly be said to be country positions.
>
> If the position of the Just Net Coalition 
> <http://content.netmundial.br/contribution/democratising-global-governance-of-the-internet/164> 
> is being meant here, it is that yes, ICANN oversight mechanism should 
> have internal legal backing/ authority,

sorry, meant "international legal backing/ authority"

> but it is not necessary that the precise oversight mechanism be 
> inter-gov in the UN sense. To that extent it is different from India's 
> position.
>
> parminder
>>
>>     parminder
>>
>>
>>     On Saturday 27 September 2014 02:25 AM, Salanieta T.
>>     Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:
>>>     As I read through all the email discussions, I could not help
>>>     wondering whether there should be greater awareness done on the
>>>     roles of stakeholders within the ecosystem. The content of the
>>>     discussions in relation to domain name racket I could not follow
>>>     through properly but whilst people are still putting all their
>>>     eggs in the domain name basket with the gTLD process, hardly
>>>     anyone talks about the dotless domains and the implication for
>>>     the current value of the domain name. Can the domain name and
>>>     dotless domain name be likened to PSTN and NGN in terms of
>>>     transition? Is it inevitable that the world will shift from
>>>     domains to more dotless domains or are dotless domains are just
>>>     a fly by night.
>>>
>>>     Personally I prefer ICANN over ITU any day in terms of being
>>>     open to hearing the voices of diverse community. ICANN has built
>>>     in mechanisms for input into various processes. ITU on the other
>>>     hand remains a closed trunk available only to Governments,
>>>     Regulators and ICT Private Sector who can afford it, and they
>>>     have no capacity to be flexible to absorb civil society. In
>>>     terms of accountability, ICANN leads as all its reports are
>>>     published open and online and available for easy access by
>>>     anyone except /some/ of the SSAC reports.
>>>
>>>     However, I can also understand why, sometimes being the oldest
>>>     UN organisation can make this resistant to change to be more
>>>     relevant with the dynamics of time. ITU has done fantastic work
>>>     building and developing toolkits for diverse initiatives within
>>>     the ICT space and should be commended.
>>>
>>>     The ITU has also begun using multistakeholder in their various
>>>     speeches just as ICANN does for some time now.
>>>
>>>     However, despite my preferences, I can say that both
>>>     organisations have greater room for even more improvement.
>>>     However, to do that we as civil society must first get our act
>>>     together and figure out architecturally, the kind of changes we
>>>     would like to see happening in the ecosystem to amplify the
>>>     voice of the common man and the inclusion of *ALL* our voices.
>>>
>>>     At the same time, we have to come to the realisation that we can
>>>     treat and respect individual organisations as unique with
>>>     distinct roles and mandates and perhaps that will make us less
>>>     likely to try to want to fit square pegs in round holes.
>>>
>>>     :)
>>
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