[Chapter-delegates] Fadi Chehade/ICANN wants to take charge with solutions for security

Sat Oct 11 07:16:41 PDT 2014

Dear Dave Burstein,

In your comment you wondered "if Fadi wasn't badly misquoted..."  Might not
have been "badly misquoted", but badly misunderstood. I get the feeling,
from a distance, that he is proving to be an Executive who understands the
Internet very well and provides exceptionally good leadership by addressing
issues that ICANN has traditionally shied away from.

Sivasubramanian M

Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:

> Dave,
>
> a different interpretation is simply that Fadi wants the private sector to
> step up, along with the gov't, academic, civil and technical communities,
> to support multi-stakeholder processes. He is also rightly concerned that
> dispute resolution is a very broad topic and it is not clear that ICANN is
> able to undertake all aspects of such disputes. Some of the disagreements
> about the use or abuse of domain names belongs in juridical settings or in
> trade dispute resolution forums such as WTO.
>
> vint
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Dave Burstein <daveb at dslprime.com> wrote:
>
>> This is an important article from Agency France Presse with a Fadi
>> interview. If he wasn't badly misquoted, it suggests ICANN with corporate
>> backing wants to dramatically extend their role.  After Fadi brought in the
>> "billionaire boys club" of the WEF in topdown manner, he may be wanting to
>> seriously expand ICANN's role to "solutions."
>>
>> If this is so, ISOC needs to vigorously jump in and and stop his
>> institutional expansionism. We gave massive support to ICANN in the last
>> year with 1Net etc. I don't think we envisioned them implementing
>> "solutions" for "security."
>>
>> I hope Fadi is even close to doing what his words suggest.
>>
>> large corporations concerned about security issues,
>>  ... 
>> Therefore, they are stepping in with force to figure out how
>> to r
>> educe potential harm to customers and to their businesses.
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> The way we put it in ICANN is getting the free will of the people to
>> bottom-up coalesce, work together and come up with solutions."
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-states-and-corporations-grab-for-reins-of-the-internet-2014-10
>>
>> States and corporations grab for reins of the Internet
>> [image: AFP] <http://www.afp.com/en/home>
>>
>>    - GLENN CHAPMAN, AFP <http://www.afp.com/en/home>
>>
>>
>>    - OCT. 9, 2014, 10:45 PM
>>    - 175
>>
>>
>>
>> [image: ICANN President Fadi Chehadé speaks at the Hudson Institute on
>> April 4, 2014. The group has moved to center stage]© AFP/File Mandel NganICANN
>> President Fadi Chehadé speaks at the Hudson Institute on April 4, 2014. The
>> group has moved to center stage
>>
>> San Francisco (AFP) - As the US steps back from overseeing the group
>> entrusted to essentially run the Internet, states and corporations are
>> grabbing for the reins.
>>
>> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has gone
>> from being behind the scenes tending to the task of managing website
>> addresses to being center stage in a play for power on the Internet.
>>
>> "Governments want to exert control over the sweeping trans-national power
>> of the Internet that is effecting their policies, politics, social fabric
>> and/or their economic conditions," ICANN chief executive Fadi Chehade told
>> AFP just days before the group gathers in Los Angeles beginning Sunday to
>> tackle an array of hot issues.
>>
>> "The other groups are large corporations concerned about security
>> issues," he continued while discussing forces striving for influence over
>> the organization.
>>
>> "Therefore, they are stepping in with force to figure out how to reduce
>> potential harm to customers and to their businesses."
>>
>> Governance of the Internet will be a high-profile topic at the ICANN 51
>> meeting that will continue through October 16 in Los Angeles.
>>
>> The World Economic Forum recently unveiled a project aimed at connecting
>> governments, businesses, academia, technicians and civil society worldwide
>> to brainstorm the best ways to govern the Internet.
>>
>> WEF launched its NETmundial Initiative in a bid to build on the outcome
>> of a large conference in Brazil in April that called for a transparent,
>> multi-stakeholder approach to running the Web.
>>
>> "Anyone who wants to come in and build a coalition of stakeholders and
>> address issues, more power to them," Chehade said of the crowd-sourcing
>> move.
>>
>> "The way we put it in ICANN is getting the free will of the people to
>> bottom-up coalesce, work together and come up with solutions."
>>
>> Participants at the conference in Brazil balked at a push by some
>> countries, including China and Russia, for governments to move into a
>> leading role in overseeing the Internet, amid fears of the impact this
>> could have on the unity of the Web and on online dissent and freedom of
>> expression.
>>
>> Chehade told AFP that the WEF will be involved in a more action-oriented
>> initiative to be announced shortly.
>>
>> "We don't need more dialogue, we need more solutions," Chehade said.
>>
>>
>>
>> - Solutions 'not forthcoming' -
>>
>>
>>
>> The ICANN 51 agenda that includes tackling whether identities of those
>> running websites should be public or whether privacy should be safeguarded
>> and operators true names revealed only with proper court orders.
>>
>> ICANN runs a Whois.icann.org service where contact information can be
>> found regarding registered operators of specific websites but not
>> necessarily people behind business names.
>>
>> "It was designed by engineers as a technical tool to contact servers,"
>> Chehade said of Whois.
>>
>> "Now, it is becoming a directory of a billion websites; it was not
>> designed for that."
>>
>> ICANN has mapped a path to evolve Whois into a true global website
>> directory, complete with privacy safeguards for website operators,
>> according to the chief executive.
>>
>> Chehade felt that ICANN has a good grip on the technical challenges it
>> faces but "we have some holes" in non-technical issues such as privacy,
>> cyber security, intellectual property rights, taxation and more.
>>
>> "All these non-technical issues that occur in the space of the use of the
>> Internet, rather than the system that runs the Internet, require global
>> frameworks of cooperation to address," Chehade said.
>>
>> "In general, these solutions are not yet forthcoming."
>>
>>
>>
>> - Pushed too far -
>>
>>
>>
>> ICANN is also being pushed beyond its scope, being asked to tackle cyber
>> security and bad behavior by website operators.
>>
>> Essentially, issues beyond protecting and managing the "root" of the
>> domain name system are outside ICANN's claimed territory.
>>
>> "It is happening, and we are resisting it," Chehade said.
>>
>> He compared the situation to a customer being treated horribly by a car
>> service opting to take their complaint to the department of motor vehicles
>> that issued the driver a license.
>>
>> What makes it frustrating turning away people with legitimate complaints
>> about websites is there tends to be no where to send them for help, he
>> noted.
>>
>> "As we move forward, ICANN and others may have roles in an eco-system of
>> cooperation that may involve multiple parties to address bad behavior,"
>> Chehade said.
>>
>> Critics of ICANN have included France, which branded the US-based body
>> unfit for Internet governance.
>>
>> The eurozone's second-largest economy has been at war with the body,
>> which assigns domain names like '.com' and runs crucial internet
>> infrastructure, over the '.wine' and '.vin' suffixes being rolled out as
>> part of an unprecedented expansion of domains.
>>
>> --
>> Editor, Fast Net News, Net Policy News and A Wireless Cloud
>> Author with Jennie Bourne  DSL (Wiley) and Web Video: Making It Great,
>> Getting It Noticed (Peachpit)
>>
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