[governance] [bestbits] US Support for Multistakeholder Governance is Conditional on US Remaining in Control

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Civil society and multistakeholder groups are rife with some people claiming to be spokespersons for everybody under the sun.

Government officials are bound by a rather more specific set of rules, I’d expect.

regards
suresh

> On 20-Oct-2015, at 9:30 PM, Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Suresh,
> I suspect the authority may be the same as that that allows ICANN to speak for "stakeholders across the global Internet community" http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions <http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions> 
> Best wishes
> Deirdre
> 
> 
> On 20 October 2015 at 11:31, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net <mailto:suresh at hserus.net>> wrote:
> The question here would be how or why he can speak for congress as a whole as opposed to current administration policy.
> 
> --srs
> 
> > On 20-Oct-2015, at 8:48 PM, Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org <mailto:pranesh at cis-india.org>> wrote:
> >
> >> On 20 October 2015 1:45:07 pm GMT+01:00, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net <mailto:suresh at hserus.net>> wrote:
> >> Come on, folks.  Asking a fairly ambiguous question, getting an equally
> >> ambiguous answer and then making a mountain out of a molehill just to
> >> score a point doesn’t sound like a very productive way to go.
> >
> > Dear Suresh,
> > Could you please point out the ambiguity in the questions and suggest how we could rephrase it to avoid that ambiguity the next time we ask it?  Thanks.
> >
> > The question was:
> > The technical stability of the DNS doesn't depend on the jurisdiction of ICANN.  Will the US Congress support a shift in jurisdiction?  And will there be a continued support for the multistakeholder model if the jurisdiction shifts?
> >
> > The transcript for the meeting will be provided soon:
> > https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule/tue-ncuc <https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule/tue-ncuc>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pranesh
> >
> 
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