[discuss] ICANN policy and "Internet Governance"

[Ian Peter]

But the simple fact is, Demi, that ICANN is tainted by this special and unilateral relationship. 

I gather this is probably one of the reasons the Montevideo statement includes the following 

“They called for accelerating the globalization of ICANN and IANA functions, towards an environment in which all stakeholders, including all governments, participate on an equal footing.”



I also suggest this was also the prime original motivator for ICANN approaching Brazil as regards the forthcoming summit.



We can talk about layers and dissect and theorise as much as we like, but this widely  perceived problem has to be dealt with one way or another, and it is a problem with governance of ICANN.  Best we come up with a good way to deal with this.



Ian Peter


From: Demi Getschko 
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 12:58 AM
To: Ian Peter 
Cc: Nick Ashton-Hart ; Jorge Amodio ; discuss at 1net.org 
Subject: Re: [discuss] ICANN policy and "Internet Governance"

>And because, even if benignly, the government responsible for the NSA’s massive invasions of privacy and breaches of sovereignty enjoys a unique unilateral relationship with ICANN in terms of its unique role as regards root >zone authorisation.
>Ian Peter

Ok, but besides the fact that it is the very same government, I do not see any other relationship between the NSA invasions and ICANN (or, even, Internet resources themselves). It was, basically, a traditional infrastructure breach, with the probable collaboration of some business sectors at the higher levels, leveraged by the huge computer power available today, the (traditional) geographic concentration of the undersea fiber, plus illegal telephonic monitoring...
demi





On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

  And because, even if benignly, the government responsible for the NSA’s massive invasions of privacy and breaches of sovereignty enjoys a unique unilateral relationship with ICANN in terms of its unique role as regards root zone authorisation. 

  Ian Peter

  From: Nick Ashton-Hart 
  Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 7:27 PM
  To: Jorge Amodio ; Avri Doria 
  Cc: discuss at 1net.org 
  Subject: Re: [discuss] ICANN policy and "Internet Governance"

  Because the gory details of their activities are not being disclosed daily and because the majority of the technology and Internet bandwidth does not pass through either country.




  Jorge Amodio <jmamodio at gmail.com> wrote: 
One more comment
  we are doing for ourselves as a multistakeholder organization. The NSA fiasco makes doing ICANN's job harder.  That makes it an Internet governance, for want of a better term, issue.Why are we focusing so much on the NSA fiasco ? What about the China fiasco, the Russia fiasco, the Turkey fiasco, the India fiasco, the Tunis fiasco, and so on ?
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