[Chapter-delegates] Audio: Influencing ICANN: What Role Will World Governments Have Over Internet Domain Functions?

Joly MacFie joly at punkcast.com
Tue Mar 22 13:34:55 PDT 2011


"On March 21, 2011, just days after ICANN* rejected the advice of its
Government Advisory Committee and allowed the creation of .XXX, the
Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee hosted a panel on
"Influencing ICANN: Do World Governments Want More Control Over Internet
Domain Functions?" This is a follow up briefing for our closely related 2009
briefing "The Future of the U.S. Government's Role in ICANN, Internet
Addressing and Internet Governance.<http://netcaucus.org/events/2009/icann/>
"

Congressional interest in this important area of Internet architecture is
obvious. Governmental control over Internet functions takes on new
significance in light of the extraordinary events recently in Tunisia, Egypt
and Libya fueled by Internet communications. Further, Congress continues to
express concern over the impact of the Internet on intellectual property
interests, which may be implicated by ICANN decisions."

http://netcaucus.org/events/2011/ICANN/index.shtml


Evan Leibovitch notes:

Small point of clarification.
The GAC response to .XXX indicated a split opinion. Some member countries
were ambivalent and some were strongly opposed.
There was concern expressed about Internet stability due to the possible
blocking of .XXX in individual countries should it be approved; I would
note, though, that the GAC has been silent to date on *existing* TLD-level
blocking by some countries (notably, .il). So, with a precedent already set
and without its complaint when *that* happened, the GAC is in a compromised
(and certainly weaker) position wrt the threat of TLD blocking.

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