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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Joe:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span>There is a challenge on the table to develop a solution that will credibly
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</span>meet the NTIA conditions. To date that is at best a work in progress. <span style="color:#1F497D">
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</span>You don't need to have Congressional action for a failure to meet those <span style="color:#1F497D">
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</span>criteria to result in the status quo. The best path forward on these matters
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</span>is to develop a truly credible solution that protects stability, functionality
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</span>and unity while remaining a non-governmental, multistakeholder solution, <span style="color:#1F497D">
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</span>not subject to capture or subversion by those elements that would try to <span style="color:#1F497D">
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</span>make the Internet less open. <span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Agreed, we need to focus on the IANA transition, and general discussions of what is democracy do not contribute to that. However, it is legitimate for people
to relate specific proposals to broader governance principles. Indeed, that is unavoidable.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">As for developing solutions, there are a number of specific plans on the table. The IGP proposal is one, but I am still a big fan of the InternetNZ diagrams,
which parse out the various activities and functions and show how different proposals might structure them.
<a href="http://www.internetgovernance.org/2014/03/27/mapping-out-the-iana-transition/">
http://www.internetgovernance.org/2014/03/27/mapping-out-the-iana-transition/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I would propose this as a reference point for discussion. There is plenty of constructive activity and discussion that can happen if we start with that.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">What is not helpful, or constructive, is for ICANN’s scoping document to tell us that any such discussion is out of scope. That gambit has completely derailed
constructive planning and proposal-making around the transition. That is why we and many others have rejected the scoping document and proposed a modified version here:
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nYQwmfTB52fLwT88RpAyGd3kD69rBLXbnG5zi5IT9yw/edit?usp=sharing">
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nYQwmfTB52fLwT88RpAyGd3kD69rBLXbnG5zi5IT9yw/edit?usp=sharing</a>
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Joe<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 4/13/2014 9:53 AM, michael gurstein wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Date: Sunday, April 13, 2014<br>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] GOP, Dems Clash Over Online Domain Name Oversight<br>
To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <<a href="mailto:dewayne-net@warpspeed.com">dewayne-net@warpspeed.com</a>><br>
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GOP, DEMS CLASH OVER ONLINE DOMAIN NAME OVERSIGHT<br>
By ALAN FRAM<br>
Apr 10 2014<br>
<<a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gop-dems-clash-over-online-domain-name-oversight" target="_blank">http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gop-dems-clash-over-online-domain-name-oversight</a>><br>
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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.<br>
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"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.<br>
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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.<br>
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"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."<br>
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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.<br>
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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
<a href="http://www.ap.org" target="_blank">www.ap.org</a>.<br>
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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.<br>
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"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."<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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"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."<br>
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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.<br>
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