[Chapter-delegates] ISOC and ICANN consultation on President's Strategy Committee

Mon Jul 28 23:18:37 PDT 2008

Hello Bill Graham,

Some quick suggestions:

Whether or not conveyed in previous submissions, this document could
prominently and unequivocally state / emphasise that "ICANN ...
derives from its agreement with the United States Department of
Commerce (USDoC). While the US government has maintained a "light
hand" approach, the potential for the DoC to play a role in decisions
about the root remains a concern for many stakeholders."

This document could also repeat / emphasize "ISOC encourages the US
Government to take a [ delete 'more' ] hands off approach in its
relationship with ICANN [ and other Internet orgnaizations ? ] .

It can also be stated that [ A hands off approach as opposed to a
"light hand" approach byt the US government would build Trust on the
part of the Governments of the world in the concept of a united
InterNetWorks and help the Internet Community in its efforts to avoid
the dangers of isolated national networks and ensure that the Internet
remains as Internet in spirit, design and access ]

Under 3. ICANN will be internationalized....

ISOC strongly agrees that ICANN should proceed with its proposal to
continue its internationalization, under private sector leadership -
"private sector leadership" could be replaced by "community
leadership" or "Internet Community leadership" or at least by
"Stakeholders' participative leadership"

Under 5, ICANN will maintain its focus.... , in the call to rephrase
"the IANA functions" , the document, the two 'parts' or the technical
mission could be more lucidly explained considering the fact that part
of the audience for this document may not have detailed knowledge of
the missions of ICANN, IETF and  IANA

Thank you
Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
ISOC India Chennai

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Bill Graham <graham at isoc.org> wrote:
> Thanks to those of you who responded to the message below.  Based on your
> comments, I have prepared the attached draftsubmission to the ICANN PSC
> consultation.  These are to be sent on Thursday, 31 July, but I wanted to
> get them to you for a quick look in advance of submitting them.  If you have
> further comments, please get them to me by the end of your business day
> Wednesday, July 30.  Many thanks.
>
> Bill
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> On 21-Jul-08, at 6:58 PM, Bill Graham wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> This note is to be sure you are aware of a consultation being conducted by
>> ICANN on the future of the organization, and to seek your views in advance
>> of a possible ISOC submission to the consultation process.  As some of you
>> will already know, ICANN launched a public consultation on the President's
>> Strategy Committee's "Transition Action Plan" (available from the main ICANN
>> web page <www.icann.org>).  The deadline for comments to ICANN is 31 July
>> 2008.
>>
>> ICANN's consultation follows the February mid-term review of the US
>> government's Joint Project Agreement with ICANN, and is part of ICANN's
>> preparations for the end of the JPA in September 2009.  ISOC is a strong
>> supporter of ICANN and its multi-stakeholder model, and has contributed
>> actively to public discussions on the topic.  Most recently, ISOC submitted
>> comments to the mid-term review (available at
>> http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/issues/dns.shtml), as did several ISOC
>> chapters and individuals from our community.  ICANN has been clear that it
>> hopes to fulfill the obligations under the JPA and previous agreements with
>> the US government in advance of the end of the JPA, and formed the
>> President's Strategy Committee to help with that effort.  The new PSC papers
>> and the current consultation are the latest steps in development of ICANN's
>> institutional arrangements.
>>
>> According to the President's Strategy Committee paper, the key
>> requirements, for ICANN to fulfill its mandate are:
>>
>>  1. ICANN will be sufficiently safeguarded against capture.
>>  2. ICANN will be sufficiently accountable to its multi-stakeholder
>> community and will preserve the principles of bottom-up development of
>> policies by those parties affected, and will maintain the structures,
>> practices and bylaws of the ICANN model that have been developed by the
>> community – including their regular review.
>>  3. ICANN will be internationalized, to allow it to meet the needs of the
>> global Internet Community of the future.
>>  4. ICANN will be financially and operationally secure.
>>  5. ICANN will maintain its focus on organizational and operational
>> excellence in performing its technical mission of ensuring safe and stable
>> operations relating to the unique identifiers of the Internet, and of the
>> IANA functions.
>>
>> We would like to hear from you.   We want to get your views on whether
>> ISOC should itself comment on the PSC paper.  Also, if you do think ISOC
>> should submit comments, please indicate briefly and specifically what
>> position you think ISOC should take and your reasoning.   In addition, given
>> ISOC's purpose and responsibility to the Internet as a whole, we are also
>> asking others, such as the ISOC Board, ISOC Organization members, other
>> Internet community stakeholders (including ICANN) for their input, to ensure
>> a well rounded thoughtful consultation lies behind any ultimate submission.
>>
>> Because the deadline is coming close, please respond by SATURDAY, JULY 26,
>> to give me time to consider your responses and prepare our response.  I
>> apologize for the short notice, which was caused by my vacation schedule,
>> but do hope that you will be able to get back to me this week.
>>
>> And, as always feel free to let me know how our consultation processes
>> might be improved going forward.
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> ========================
>> Bill Graham
>> Global Strategic Engagement
>> The Internet Society
>> graham at isoc.org
>> tel +1.613.231.8543 or
>> +1.703.439.2157
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