[Chapter-delegates] UN plans to take over our job!

[Patrick Vande Walle]

Gene Gaines wrote:

>"It's a very shocking and profound change of the EU's position,"
>said David Gross, the State Department official in charge of
>America's international communications policy. "The EU's
>proposal seems to represent an historic shift in the regulatory
>approach to the Internet from one that is based on private
>sector leadership to a government, top-down control of the
>Internet."
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Gene,

Mr Gross obviously did not read the EU proposal
(http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/pc3/contributions/sca/EU-28.doc). It
states among others that: " [the forum] should not replace existing
mechanisms or institutions" and that " the role of governments in the
new cooperation model should be mainly focused on principle issues of
public policy". It concludes that "It should work with existing
institutions or organisations and not try to dominate issues already
dealt with elsewhere. It should not perform oversight tasks".  So there
is no willingess, at least from the EU side, to let the UN do the job of
the IETF or ICANN.

The thing that upset the US delegation is that the EU and many others
want the root zone find under mutilateral/multistakeholder control. The
latest intervention of the DoC regarding .xxx clearly shows that its
mandate is not (only) to preserve the stability of the Internet but to
inject the most conservative Republican values in what should be a
purely technical/administrative process. It makes sense for the other
countries that a global, worldwide resource like the DNS root should not
be at the mercy of the political agenda of one single government.

Patrick