[discuss] [governance] NTIA statement

Mon Mar 17 10:57:30 UTC 2014

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:16 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 16 March 2014 09:51 PM, Victor Ndonnang wrote:
>>
>> +1 Adiel.
>> Surveillance and intelligence agencies was there before the Internet. Even
>> if the Internet has a role in the mass surveillance...USG/NTIA intent to
>> transfer IANA and root zone management related to the global independent
>> Multistakeholder entity is not a response to the mass surveillance issue.
>
>
> Agree, developments on the ICANN oversight issue do not constitute any real
> response to mass surveillance problem. And since NetMundial came out of a
> series of events directly connected to the mass surveillance problem, and
> which is the main reason the 'global community' invested into it, it is only
> fair to the people across the world that we have
>
> 1. discussions on this issues

You must recall Fadi saying in the very early days that if
surveillance were discussed, ICANN would pull out.

rgds,

McTim