[Chapter-delegates] [Inputs sought] ISOC response to the US Government Notice of Inquiry on the ICANN Joint Project Agreement

[Veni Markovski]

Bill,
Right on target!
You could also take a look at Peter Dengate's letter to Suzanne Sene: 
http://www.icann.org/correspondence/dengate-thrush-to-sene-09jan08.pdf

There are certain items there, which are still valid.

best,
Veni



Bill Graham wrote:
> -- Emphasize the fundamental role of ICANN as a steward of a global 
> resource.  [It might be something like: ICANN must always remember its 
> fundamental responsibility as the steward over a shared global 
> resource.  ICANN is not a simple aggregator of the interests of its 
> multiple constituencies. This central obligation should drive the 
> future direction and activities of the organization.  And it implies 
> that the ICANN Board must accept the responsibility to do what is 
> right for the Internet, even if that course is not the most popular 
> with some of its most powerful constituencies.]
>
> -- Support the original four principles for management of the DNS as 
> having ongoing relevance (those were: stability; competition; private, 
> bottom-up coordination; and  representation)
>
> -- Support the full privatization of ICANN at the end of the JPA to 
> promote private-sector (defined as non-governmental, private) 
> leadership and bottom-up policy making, consistent with our previous 
> statements to the US government.
>
> -- Draw attention to the ongoing need to improve accountability and 
> transparency mechanisms (ref. the first point), but stress that this 
> is something that the ICANN stakeholders can and must accept 
> responsibility for doing.
>
> -- Support the identified need to continue to strengthen mechanisms to 
> avoid capture [Are the current mechanisms are sufficiently strong?  
> Are improvements needed and if so what?]
>
> -- The US Government emphasizes the requirement that it and ICANN 
> collaborate on a DNS Project Report that will document ICANN's 
> policies and procedures designed and developed pursuant to the 
> agreement. They ask what should be included in this report?  [This 
> would be a good place to reiterate the stewardship role.  Are there 
> other messages ISOC should propose for inclusion in this report?]
>
>