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

Tue Oct 20 16:58:08 EDT 2015

The multistakeholder process does not lay emphasis on protocols so I wrote
as a participant of ICANN to the Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling, (to
reach whom it would have taken several impossible layers in the
multilateral process) and he responded almost immediately to clarify as
follows:

The Obama Administration supports the multistage holder process.  My
response at the NCUC was meant to indicate that our Congress has made clear
that ICANN must remain incorporated in the United States as a result of the
transition.  Hopefully, this clarifies the discussion this morning.  ---
Lawrence Strickling

In my message to him, I wrote as follows:

Dear Mr Strickling,
> As an ICANN participant, I am somewhat puzzled to observe an email
> exchange http://lists.bestbits.net/arc/bestbits/2015-10/msg00034.html this
> afernoon. This concerns a question raised by one of the participants on
> Jurisdiction, a question in two parts, the first part was to ask if US
> would support a jurisdictional change for ICANN and the second part was
> about US support for the multistakeholder process in case there was a
> jurisdictional change. From what I understand, the answer was No,  which
> was taken as a negative response to the question on US support for the
> multistakeholder process, which has given room for a misunderstanding that
> the United States Government would support the multistakeholder process
> only if ICANN remains within US.
> This could not possibly have been your response, I think that your
> response was possible for the first question, and not to the one that
> followed.   Before stating this in the list, and sharing this opinion with
> other participants, I wish to clarify this from you.
> I believe that US commitment for the multistakeholder process is
> fundamental and unconditional.

What matters is that he did not deny that US commitment for the
multistakeholder process is fundamental and unconditional. Perhaps he did
not answer that part of the question. So there is more excitement on his
response earlier this morning than due.

Sivasubramanian M
Internet Society India Chennai

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Seth Johnson <seth.p.johnson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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