[chapter-delegates] FYI - in the coming discussion of the WGIG questionnaire

Veni Markovski veni at veni.com
Mon Jun 6 18:47:01 PDT 2005


At 16:32 06-06-05  -0700, Fred Baker wrote:
>On Jun 6, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Patrick Vande Walle wrote:
>>  Suggesting that WSIS/WGIG wants to dismantle ICANN and is a danger for 
>> the free Internet is plain FUD.
>
>I generally agree with your thoughts on this article, Patrick. I don't 
>think the article serves ICANN very well, because of the obvious rhetoric 
>it contains, and because Tucows (an internet registrar) is an interested 
>party in the discussion.

While I agree with you on many matters, I need to make a clarfication here, 
because today everyone is an interested pary in this context, including 
ISOC, which is getting majority of its money from .org. In fact, 
considering this issue, the only non-interested parties will be the UN and 
the ITU.

>You are correct that WSIS/WGIG is not directly an attack on ICANN. I think 
>it is fair to say, however, that the ITU would like to use WSIS to unseat 
>ICANN and get the functions ICANN performs awarded to it,

I don't think that the ITU wants this. This was said by Mr. Zhao, on 
several occasions, but this is said also in an environment, which will 
"buy" this statements. What ITU may be willing to do is to change the 
current model, have the functions of GAC with a lot of force /enforcement/ 
options.

>  answer was "yes" was very symptomatic of that. That discussion is in 
> fact where the term "internet governance" originated, with three

Correct me, if I am wrong, but I've seen this term in ISOC's documents long 
before it became popular within the WSIS environment, and way before the 
WGIG was formed. I would go one step further - if ISOC has done its 
homework years ago, there would have been no need of the current IG 
discussion. But that's in the past, we can't change it. We must focus on 
the present time and the future, and how ISOC can help. Given its, as you 
say, self-serving role, perhaps a different approach needs to be found? Can 
you suggest such one?

best,
veni 



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