<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On 23 Mar 2014, at 4:40 pm, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Sunday 23 March 2014 12:44 PM, John
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On Mar 23, 2014, at 2:59 PM, parminder <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>>
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inline !important;">(standards making for something as
socially important today as the Internet, in absence of any
further neutral public oversight constitutes a governance
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<div>Really? There are hundreds of IETF protocols (and there can
be hundreds of</div>
<div>Internet Drafts proposing changes or enhancements coming up
for consideration</div>
<div>to become an RFC at any given IETF meeting...)</div>
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<div>Decisions on all of those documents are "governance
functions"? That is </div>
<div>beyond believability, and hence I ask what criteria or
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<div>you believe would make a decision on a document an act of
"governance"...</div>
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Before I present my case, I would like to know whether you consider
ICANN's DNS functions as governance functions or not?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ICANN has a great many functions related to the DNS. Some of them are governance functions, some are not, some are arguable. You will have to be a lot more precise. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>And it should be noted that the individual sub-components of ICANN are usually quite specific about their role. Sometimes the same issue can be dealt with as a governance function by some parts of ICANN, as a policy development by other parts, and an implementation by others - all parts being quite specific about their role. </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cheers</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>David</div></div></body></html>