<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div><div></div><div>Welldone Jordan.</div><div> I agree with you. It is the communities place to determine what the public interest is</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Nkemdilim Nweke<br>Executive Director, Operations. <br>DigitalSENSE AFRICA MEDIA (DSA Media)<br>*Media *Consultancy *ICT Analyst *Perception Management<br>DigitalSENSE Business News; ITRealms Online, NaijaAgroNet<br>Winner: First runner up, Highway Africa New Media Awards 2010<br>Organisers: Nigeria DigitalSENSE (NDS) Forum Series<br>Block F1, Shop 133 Moyosore Aboderin Plaza, Bolade Junction,<br>Opp. Akinkpelu Street, Oshodi-Lagos<br>P.O. Box 2823 Oshodi Post Office, Oshodi-Lagos State, Nigeria<br>www.digitalsenseafrica.com.ng; www.digitalsenseafrica.blogspot.com<br>234-8034606066, 8099400183, 7026272656, 8023122558, 8033592762<br>... Making sense of digital revolution.</div><div></div></div><div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Jordan Carter <jordan@internetnz.net.nz> <br>Date:03/09/2014 13:37 (GMT+01:00) <br>To: discuss@1net.org, ianaxfer@elists.isoc.org <br>Subject: [discuss] The public interest and ICANN <br><br><div dir="ltr">Hi all<div><br></div><div>Here's something to mull on. </div><div><br></div><div>In a couple of situations recently - the panel that Vint chaired a few months ago and in the ICANN Town Hall meeting on Friday - there's been some use made of the concept of the public interest as a guiding principle for ICANN (including its stewardship of the DNS, and operation of the IANA functions).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think we need to be careful about this idea, and here's why.</div><div><br></div><div>The public interest is secured by an open single Internet, and the technical coordination of the DNS and the other IANA functions contribute to that. All of those functions are done in the service of a wide array of other organisations - communities, if you will. </div>
<div><br></div><div>ICANN serves the public interest by being the common platform where this coordination happens. It serves the public interest by serving its communities and its customers faithfully.</div><div><br></div>
<div>If there was a perceived gap in ICANN's mind between what the "public interest" is, and what the interests of ICANN's communities are, then there is a mistake being made somewhere.</div><div><br></div>
<div>To put it another way, I think we should be very firm that it is not ICANN's job to determine what the public interest IS in relation to its work. It is the job of the communities that work together in ICANN's multistakeholder framework to do that. ICANN provides the framework, not the answers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There is no abstract public interest for ICANN to guard. It guards the public interest by faithfully serving the Internet Community.</div><div><br></div><div>best</div><div>Jordan<br clear="all"><div><br>
</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Jordan Carter<br><br>Chief Executive <br><b>InternetNZ</b><br><br>04 495 2118 (office) | +64 21 442 649 (mob)<br><a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz" target="_blank">jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a> <br>
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