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

[Seth Johnson]

It's more that reaching fairly dependable general conclusions about
the legislative branch is not too hard these days.


Seth

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
> 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
> Best wishes
> Deirdre
>
>
> On 20 October 2015 at 11:31, Suresh Ramasubramanian <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>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 20 October 2015 1:45:07 pm GMT+01:00, Suresh Ramasubramanian
>> >> <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
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Pranesh
>> >
>>
>>
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