[discuss] FW: [IP] GOP, Dems Clash Over Online Domain Name Oversight/reality check

Sun Apr 13 18:36:51 UTC 2014

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On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:27 PM, joseph alhadeff <joseph.alhadeff at oracle.com
> wrote:

>  Colleagues:
>
> There is a challenge on the table to develop a solution that will credibly
> meet the NTIA conditions.  To date that is at best a work in progress.  You
> don't need to have Congressional action for a failure to meet those
> criteria to result in the status quo.  The best path forward on these
> matters is to develop a truly credible  solution that protects stability,
> functionality and unity while remaining a non-governmental,
> multistakeholder solution, not subject to capture or subversion by those
> elements that would try to make the Internet less open.  While I think we
> can all find ways to criticize what has been mutlistakeholder to date as
> not perfect, we should perhaps focus on those improvements that would lead
> to a  more credible, inclusive, participatory AND FUNCTIONAL solution that
> also recognizes and addresses the technical and operational needs of the
> Internet and governance.  Theoretical discussions of pure democracy while
> intellectually interesting, may not lead us to a practicable solution.
>
> Best-
>
> Joe
> On 4/13/2014 9:53 AM, michael gurstein wrote:
>
>  Accepting for the moment the argument that the USG has been completely
> benign and acting completely in support of the global public interest in
> its stewardship of the Internet,  shouldn't someone somewhere be doing the
> deep thinking involved in figuring out what to do if/when the USG/Congress
> says to the world... "The Internet is ours, we paid for it, and you can't
> have it or you can have it only on our terms... (or the diplomatic/technical
> equivalent)... and without of course, having any clear idea of what that does
> (or could) mean.
>
> M
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Dewayne Hendricks* <dewayne at warpspeed.com>
> Date: Sunday, April 13, 2014
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] GOP, Dems Clash Over Online Domain Name Oversight
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net at warpspeed.com>
>
>
> GOP, DEMS CLASH OVER ONLINE DOMAIN NAME OVERSIGHT
> By ALAN FRAM
> Apr 10 2014
> <
> http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gop-dems-clash-over-online-domain-name-oversight
> >
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican opposition to Obama administration plans to
> spin off U.S. oversight of the Internet's domain name system is evolving
> into an election-year political fight, with GOP lawmakers using it as the
> latest front in their attacks on President Barack Obama's trustworthiness.
>
> "We've seen enough out of this administration and its imperial presidency
> politics that I'm not going to just give them a blank pen and then walk
> away," Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., said Thursday as a House subcommittee he
> chairs voted to impose a one-year delay in implementing any changes so
> congressional investigators could study the issue.
>
> The party-line 16-10 vote came as administration officials defended their
> proposal at other congressional hearings. And Democratic lawmakers said
> Republican warnings that the Internet could be turned over to hostile
> governments were the stuff of fantasy.
>
> "It's not a conspiracy or a digital black helicopter," Rep. Anna Eshoo,
> D-Calif., said in a sarcastic reference to 1990s-era claims by some
> militias and other right-wing groups about government surveillance
> aircraft. "It's a plan, and I think it's time to move forward with it."
>
> The back and forth comes during a campaign season in which Republicans
> have vilified Obama as exceeding his powers by taking steps such as
> delaying various deadlines set by his health care overhaul law, which they
> solidly oppose.
>
> The latest dispute is over an administration announcement last month that
> it wants to give up its oversight of the non-profit U.S. corporation that
> manages the Internet's system of addresses, such as www.ap.org.
>
> That entity -- the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers --
> has allocated domain names and the numerical addresses to which they are
> attached since 1998. Ever since, ICANN's work has been overseen by the
> Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information
> Administration.
>
> "We are not giving up our leadership role," Lawrence Strickling, who heads
> the NTIA, told members of the House Judiciary Committee. "We are stepping
> out of clerical functions we currently perform."
>
> Shedding oversight of how ICANN distributes addresses is a long-planned,
> logical next step, administration officials say. They say the move would
> still leave the U.S. with a voice on advisory committees and other entities
> that make decisions about larger questions about Internet policies.
>
> The Obama administration and ICANN say decisions about who would take the
> current U.S. oversight role will be made by companies, engineers, nonprofit
> groups, governments and other Internet users -- the same way many decisions
> about Internet policy are currently made.
>
> "Everyone is at the table with equal voice," ICANN's president and CEO,
> Fadi Chehade, told the Judiciary panel. "The model works, and it works very
> well."
>
> Critics say there is no way to know what new entity would take the
> administration's role, or what other changes might occur should the U.S.
> lose leverage with the domain assigning corporation The U.S. government has
> had a series of contracts with ICANN since 1998, with the current one
> expiring in September 2015 -- with two two-year renewals possible.
>
> [snip]
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