[Chapter-delegates] "The globalization of ICANN and IANA" following up Lynn's comment

[Dave Burstein]

All

As the CEO notes, "

What attracted most attention perhaps was the call for accelerating the
globalization of ICANN." She's referring to the Montevideo Statement which
ISOC supported. Since this is important stuff that's been little reported,
I wanted to follow up with some resources. Like many, I'm not sure what is
really going on which is why I'm asking. Here's the
statement<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-07oct13-en.htm>

1) Professor Milton Mueller believed that Montevideo amounted to an
enormous change. He wrote

"THE CORE INTERNET INSTITUTIONS ABANDON THE US GOVERNMENT
    In Montevideo, Uruguay this week, the Directors of all the major
Internet organizations – ICANN, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the
Internet Architecture Board, the World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet
Society, all five of the regional Internet address registries – turned
their back on the US government. With striking unanimity, the organizations
that actually develop and administer Internet standards and resources
initiated a break with 3 decades of U.S. dominance of Internet governance.
  A statement released by this group called for “accelerating the
globalization of ICANN and IANA functions, towards an environment in which
all stakeholders, including all governments, participate on an equal
footing.” That part of the statement constituted an explicit rejection of
the US Commerce Department’s unilateral oversight of ICANN through the IANA
contract." 2- My first take was that the signers didn't mean to go so far.
But after reading some comments from Fadi Chehade of ICANN and talking to
some people, I wrote a first look that this might "a Declaration of
Independence of the
Net."<http://fastnetnews.com/dslprime/42-d/4997-first-look-declarations-of-independence-of-the-net->
Since
then, I'm even more confused as people weigh in. U.S. Ambassador Danny
Sepulveda in Bali actually seemed to endorse Montevideo, but I haven't
heard anything similar from the U.S. NTIA, which has the responsibility for
overseeing ICANN. 3- Columbia University next Tuesday (Noon New York time)
will host a webinar that I hope will get more information. "Is there a
third way for the Internet?" Meeting Number: 731 150 813
https://citicolumbia.webex.com/citicolumbia/j.php?ED=266817567&UID=504362092&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D


Mueller, ARIN Chief John Curran (who signed Montevideo), Alejandro Pisanty
(former ISOC board member), Harold Feld and others will be on the webinar.
There will be loads of time for questions. I'm chairing the webinar. Send
me questions in advance (I'm the chair) and I promise to ask them, possibly
reworded for the context.
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Lots going on. Thanks again to Lynn for responding and let's make sure to
get all the information out there.

Here's from Lynn 

T
> the I* community felt that the surveillance issues (and the reactions we
> were seeing that were affecting the Internet and users) were so serious
> that we needed to go on record, and hence the idea of a press release was
> born during the meeting.  As virtually all (maybe all) of the organizations
> had previously been on record for many of these points, we felt that it was
> appropriate to go forward.
>  ...
> 
>         • called for accelerating
> 
> the globalization of ICANN and IANA functions, towards an environment in
> which all stakeholders, including all governments, participate on an equal
> footing.
>
> Nothing in these statements is particularly new.  ISOC has previously
> expressed concerns about surveillance; we tried hard to catalyze community
> wide effort in the past (WCIT was a good example), played a leading role in
> promoting IPv6, etc.
>
> 
> What attracted most attention perhaps was the call for accelerating the
> globalization of ICANN.   And, this was in line with our previously agreed
> policy.  All the I* organizations had worked closely when preparing their
> submission for the “Notice of Inquiry” and “Further Notice of Inquiry” in
> 2011. The common understanding had always been that there was no need for
> centralized control by any government, but the entire system needed time to
> mature.  And, we have always supported the continuing evolution/increasing
> independence from the USG.
>
>
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