[Chapter-delegates] Draft ISOC comments on WGIG report

[Franck Martin]

[PS: Michael can you send me the attachment again, it got removed on the
way by our anti-virus scan engine]

I have a question about the WGIG report, it states that there can only
be 13 root servers due to technological issues. Is that true. I suppose
these 13 are without counting the anycast servers? I fear here another
go at discrediting ICANN?

PICISOC will certainly prepare an independednt submission (time permit).
It is nice to be able to support ISOC position now that we know it,
however our main point, is that creating another UN type forum is
draining resources on developping countries as they have to meet the
costs in physical participation. In countries with little population it
may mean removing somebody from the workforce several weeks a year.
We would rather see increased virtual participatory approaches, like
ICANN, IETF, APNIC is doing where you can particiapte in meetings from
your office.
We would rather recommend that this form of participation be encourage
by the UN, and that in general Internet Governance issues should be
discussed in current UN forum. No need to create another structure to
put more burden on developping countries and tax payers.

(note: even India has issues to find money to send representatives to
all these Internet meetings, why create another forum?)

Cheers



Michael R Nelson wrote:

> Attached is a draft of ISOC comments on the new report of the UN
> Working Group on Internet Government (WGIG).
>
> The draft combines large portions of the statements that Lynn St.
> Amour and Brian Carpenter made at the last public meeting of the WGIG
> in June.
> In addition, it contains criticiques of specific parts of the report.
>
> Several parts of the draft reflect discussions during last weekend's
> meetings of the ISOC Advisory Committee and the ISOC Board in Paris. I
> have also included data from the recent members' survey regarding the
> WGIG report. Thank you to all of you who provided your input and advice.
>
> The most important (and likely the most controversial) sections of the
> draft are:
>
> 1) The last paragraph of the Executive Summary on the first page,
> which calls for more focus on technological solutions (and less focus
> on ICANN, DNS, IP addresses)
>
> 2) The first portion of the section on "How to Read the WGIG Report"
> on page 4.
>
> 3) A call for reform of UN agencies (especially the ITU) in the last
> paragraph of page 6.
>
> 4) A clear statement of opposition to the idea of a single
> general-purpose forum linked to the UN to discuss Internet issues (and
> a criticism of the UN ICT Task Force, the GBDE, and the Global
> Information Infrastructure Commission) on page 8.
>
> 5) A statement of ISOC's priorities for WSIS at the bottom of page 10
> and the top of page 11.
>
> If you have comments regarding this draft, please e-mail them to me,
> Lynn St. Amour, and Miriam Kuehne (mnelson at isoc.org,
> st.amour at isoc.org, kuehne at isoc.org)
> Please send any comments you have by Thursday night, August 11.
>
> We aim to finish work on these comments by Friday, August 12, since
> they must be submitted to the WSIS Secretariat by Monday, August 15
>
> /(See attached file: ISOC comments on WGIG report V3a.doc)/
>
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>
> Michael R. Nelson
> Director, Internet Technology and Strategy
> IBM Corporation
> 1301 K St., N.W., Suite 1200
> Washington, DC 20005
> 202-515-5137
> cell 703-598-5187
> mrn at us.ibm.com
>
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>

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