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As the CEO notes, "<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div><span style="font-family:arial">What attracted most attention perhaps was the call for accelerating the globalization of ICANN." She's referring to the Montevideo Statement which ISOC supported. Since this is important stuff that's been little reported, I wanted to follow up with some resources. Like many, I'm not sure what is really going on which is why I'm asking. Here's the <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-07oct13-en.htm">statement</a></span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial">1) Professor Milton Mueller believed that Montevideo amounted to an enormous change. He wrote </span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial">"THE CORE INTERNET INSTITUTIONS ABANDON THE US GOVERNMENT</span><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default"> In Montevideo, Uruguay this week, the Directors of all the major Internet organizations – ICANN, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Architecture Board, the World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet Society, all five of the regional Internet address registries – turned their back on the US government. With striking unanimity, the organizations that actually develop and administer Internet standards and resources initiated a break with 3 decades of U.S. dominance of Internet governance. A statement released by this group 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.” That part of the statement constituted an explicit rejection of the US Commerce Department’s unilateral oversight of ICANN through the IANA contract." 2- My first take was that the signers didn't mean to go so far. But after reading some comments from Fadi Chehade of ICANN and talking to some people, I wrote a first look that this might "<a href="http://fastnetnews.com/dslprime/42-d/4997-first-look-declarations-of-independence-of-the-net-">a Declaration of Independence of the Net."</a> Since then, I'm even more confused as people weigh in. U.S. Ambassador Danny Sepulveda in Bali actually seemed to endorse Montevideo, but I haven't heard anything similar from the U.S. NTIA, which has the responsibility for overseeing ICANN. 3- Columbia University next Tuesday (Noon New York time) will host a webinar that I hope will get more information. "<span style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,Helvetica,Geneva">Is there a third way for the Internet?" </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,Helvetica,Geneva">Meeting Number: 731 150 813 </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,Helvetica,Geneva"> </span><a href="https://citicolumbia.webex.com/citicolumbia/j.php?ED=266817567&UID=504362092&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D" target="_blank" style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,Helvetica,Geneva">https://citicolumbia.webex.com/citicolumbia/j.php?ED=266817567&UID=504362092&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D</a><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,Helvetica,Geneva"> </span><br style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,Helvetica,Geneva">
<br>Mueller, ARIN Chief John Curran (who signed Montevideo), Alejandro Pisanty (former ISOC board member), Harold Feld and others will be on the webinar. There will be loads of time for questions. I'm chairing the webinar. Send me questions in advance (I'm the chair) and I promise to ask them, possibly reworded for the context. </div>
<div class="gmail_default">---------------------------</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Lots going on. Thanks again to Lynn for responding and let's make sure to get all the information out there. <br>
<br>Here's from Lynn<span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">T</div>the I* community felt that the surveillance issues (and the reactions we were seeing that were affecting the Internet and users) were so serious that we needed to go on record, and hence the idea of a press release was born during the meeting. As virtually all (maybe all) of the organizations had previously been on record for many of these points, we felt that it was appropriate to go forward.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">
...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div> • called for accelerating<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>
the globalization of ICANN and IANA functions, towards an environment in which all stakeholders, including all governments, participate on an equal footing.<br><br>
Nothing in these statements is particularly new. ISOC has previously expressed concerns about surveillance; we tried hard to catalyze community wide effort in the past (WCIT was a good example), played a leading role in promoting IPv6, etc.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>What attracted most attention perhaps was the call for accelerating the globalization of ICANN. And, this was in line with our previously agreed policy. All the I* organizations had worked closely when preparing their submission for the “Notice of Inquiry” and “Further Notice of Inquiry” in 2011. The common understanding had always been that there was no need for centralized control by any government, but the entire system needed time to mature. And, we have always supported the continuing evolution/increasing independence from the USG.<br>
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