[council] FW: The Icann 55 Internet Proposal Is a Good One - The Wall Street Journal.

[Phil Corwin <psc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI—the WSJ just published an abridged version of my Letter to the Editor---

I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street 
Journal.

The Icann 55 Internet Proposal Is a Good One

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-icann-55-internet-proposal-is-a-good-one-1459710814

The Icann 55 Internet Proposal Is a Good One
The package just adopted at Icann 55 will provide a substantial improvement in 
the accountability of Icann’s board to its multistakeholder community.
April 3, 2016 3:13 p.m. ET
In “Stop Obama’s Internet 
Giveaway<http://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-obamas-internet-giveaway-1458505088>” 
(Information Age, March 21), Gordon Crovitz quotes a passage from my March 2 
CircleID.com article in which I was critical of former Icann CEO Fadi Chehade’s 
less than complete response to a letter of inquiry from three senators. I had 
previously questioned the propriety of the December 2015 announcement that Mr. 
Chehade, while still an Icann employee and absent advance notice to the Icann 
board, had agreed to be co-chair of the advisory committee to China’s World 
Internet Conference (WIC). WIC appears to have the aim of supplanting Icann’s 
multistakeholder model (MSM) with multilateral government dominance, and to 
oppose the version of Internet Governance (IG) that abhors the type of state 
information censorship exemplified by China’s so-called “Great Firewall.”
While the quotation is correct, and while I respect Mr. Crovitz’s viewpoint, I 
wish to make clear that I am not opposed to the final IANA transition and 
accompanying Icann accountability proposals. The package just adopted at Icann 
55 in Marrakesh is a sound blueprint that, while composed of interdependent 
compromises, will nonetheless provide a substantial improvement in the 
accountability of Icann’s board to its multistakeholder community if faithfully 
implemented over the coming months.
Philip S. Corwin
Washington



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