[governance] US Control over ICANN

Wed Apr 27 04:53:33 EDT 2016

Dear Pranesh,
I commend you for bringing this debate back. I didin't know of this document and this great statement by the IGC until you share it here. After a quick read on it, I noticed there have been improvements on the way ICANN operates (following some of "our" recommendations). 

Can I say we are on the right track? I also commend the work done by the IGC members at that time and for this great statement at the WSIS.

As an ICANN Fellow, I can see some of the recommendations (made in 2005) have been solved thanks to the committment of many of our civil society colleagues who are very active within the ICANN system. 
I would say we have moved forward on issues such as:

2. ICANN must ensurefull and equal multi-stakeholder participation on its Board, and throughout itsorganizational structures of the community of Internet users, nationalgovernments, civil society, the technical community, business associations, nonprofit organizations and non-business organizations. Particular attentionshould be paid to developing country's participation.
7. Governments,individuals, and international organizations, including NGOs, would have theright and responsibility of bringing violations of these requirements to theattention of ICANN and if satisfactory resolution cannot be reached using ICANNinternal processes, should have the right to invoke a binding appeals process.
However, the points you mention re ICANN being incorporated in CA and the fact that the Post-IANA Transtion is likely to be implemented in that same direction, this debate is worth it and I will be glad to hear from our experienced members who are also either on the ICANN Board or in other leadership positions within ICANN's AC/SO.
Let's discuss... 
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 Le Mardi 26 avril 2016 23h44, Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org> a écrit :

 Dear all,
In 2005 at WSIS, here are some of the demands made by the Civil Society 
Internet Governance Caucus:

> “ICANN will negotiate an appropriate host country agreement to replace its California Incorporation, being careful to retain those aspects of its California Incorporation that enhance its accountability to the global Internet user community.
> "ICANN's decisions, and any host country agreement, must be required to comply with public policy requirements negotiated through international treaties in regard to, inter alia, human rights treaties, privacy rights, gender agreements and trade rules. …
> "It is also expected that the multi-stakeholder community will observe and comment on the progress made in this process through the proposed [Internet Governance] Forum."

https://www.itu.int/net/wsis/docs2/pc3/contributions/sca/hbf-29.doc

Do the IGC membership disavow this stand?

And what do the membership of allied civil society groupings like Best 
Bits think about this, given that not just ICANN but even the new 
"Post-Transition IANA" is currently set to be incorporated as a 
California corporation?

~ Pranesh

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