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Re: [ga] Re: ICANN before the US Senate...
- To: Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [ga] Re: ICANN before the US Senate...
- From: Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 18:10:22 -0700
- Cc: ga@xxxxxxxx, Conrad Burns <Conrad_Burns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John McCain <John_McCain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Organization: INEGroup Spokesman
- References: <200308041744.TAA05339@balsa.cetp.ipsl.fr>
- Sender: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Elisabeth and all former DNSO GA members or other interested parties,
Thank you Elisabeth for your candid comments and/or remarks
regarding the Senate hearing this time around regarding ICANN.
It is a bit demeaning to hear that our US Senate are like
"Actors" in the discharge of their duties from a French
Citizen. It would seem that mending fences between
our two countries is not in the forefront of your mind
or thoughts. I hope that the Senate committee members
will not take offense to your remarks.
Elisabeth Porteneuve wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Personal summary and comments on five testimonies, presented in the US
> Senate on 31 July 2003, cf.
> http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/hearings/witnesslist.cfm?id=889
>
> Caveat:
> As a non-US citizen, I feel watching Congress hearings like going to a
> theater - the actors play their role, I am sitting in the remote
> audience. I did appreciate Paul Twomey's conclusion said to the US
> Senator Burns:
> "I want to help establish that a public-private partnership of the kind that
> ICANN has become is in fact a feasible and appropriate way to deal with
> matters like the DNS, over which no single government can claim sovereignty,
> but which all governments and many private parties have important and
> legitimate interests in seeing function well."
>
> In making this summary my primary interest is about ccTLD, but I made
> also a search of following words - how many time those words are used
> in provided presentations:
> 1. stability and security
> 2. ccTLD, ccNSO, country-code
> 3. root
> 4. government
> 5. Congress
> 6. MoU
> 7. regulate or regulation
> 8. Verisign
> 9. IPv6
> 10. ITU, WSIS, UN, foreign
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> words used in testimony | Victory| Twomey| Balough| Davidson| Stahura|
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1. stability or security | 16 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
> 2. ccTLD ccNSO country-code | 9 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 0 |
> 3. root | 3 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 0 |
> 4. government | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 2 |
> 5. Congress | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 |
> 6. MoU | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
> 7. regulate or regulation | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
> 8. Verisign | 0 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 16 |
> 9. IPv6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
> 10. ITU WSIS UN foreign gov | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Nancy Victory's primary focus is on stability and security, her interest on
> ccTLD is high (to perceive the change one shall go back to the White Paper
> from 1998 where ccTLD were mention twice, and of no interest to the
> global Internet governance). She acknowledges the global factor of Internet,
> and refers to the global Internet community. She refers to the undergoing
> work on extension of the MoU.
>
> Paul Twomey's primary interest is in ccTLDs, next are root servers, VeriSign
> and stability and security of Internet. He uses the word "government" in
> general manner, not US-government. It is worth to note he mentions IPv6
> three times, and is the only speaker insisting in this important issue.
>
> Ari Balough's main concern is obviously Verisign, but he shares equivalent
> interest to stability and security of Internet, root servers, and ccTLD.
> He uses the word "government" mostly in general manner, with one exception,
> when he recalls the very existence of ICANN "ICANN has been the entity
> charged by the U.S. government and a community of Internet interests with
> coordinating certain technical functions of the Internet's naming and
> numbering system". He is preoccupied about too much regulation of registrars
> business practices. Ari Balough speaks at length about ccTLD, from Verisign
> business perspective: (a) We are good US company under ICANN contract, we
> provide critical infrastructure, spend hundred millions dollars; at the same
> time there are over 200 ccTLDs, nearly half of all registered names, mostly
> without signed agreement; (b) ICANN is not legitimate, it failed to have cc
> and IP registries in, it failed to have root operators in, and at the same
> time it behaves as unchartered FCC micromanaging VeriSign, and preventing
> VeriSign from doing whatever it feels appropriate in IDNs and WLS.
>
> Alan Davidson's primary focus are the powers of the US government and the
> US Congress to oversight ICANN. His statement is quit contradictory
> and US-centric. He claims to speak on behalf of Internet users. He mentions
> ccTLD for its own purpose. He is unhappy with ICANN, but he concludes
> unfortunately there is nothing else, no one place giving users and
> individuals rights to participate in global Internet governance. He considers
> there are insufficient limits on ICANN's regulatory authority. He begs the
> US Congress to control ICANN for the benefit of Internet users. He mentions
> MoU three times. He is afraid of foreign governments, ITU, the United
> Nations and WSIS. He is afraid of internal US government changes at DoC.
>
> Paul Stahura's primary focus is the fight with Verisign and ICANN against
> WLS issue. He does not pronounce a single word about ccTLD, ccNSO or
> country-code. He points out problems with ICANN's credibility with regards
> to the companies it regulates. He considers the US Congress must continue to
> exercise its oversight jurisdiction by holding the Department of Commerce
> accountable for its activities regarding ICANN. He calls for the US GAO
> review of ICANN activities, and refers to internal US legislation to
> supervise ICANN and to assess its execution of the MoU.
>
> --
>
> Quotes from testimonies about ccTLD, ccNSO and country-code:
>
> Nancy Victory: mentions ccTLD 5 times (using such terms as ccTLD managers,
> ccTLD community, and ccTLD operators), and ccNSO 2 times:
> ...
> ICANN has refined its mission and restructured its supporting
> organizations and advisory committees, including the
> establishment of a new supporting organization for country code
> Top Level Domain (ccTLD) managers;
> ...
> Developing Agreements with ccTLD Operators. The fastest growing
> segment of the DNS is within the ccTLD community. While ICANN
> continues to make progress towards establishing stable agreements
> with ccTLD operators, forward movement has been slow. This is
> largely attributable to the complexities resulting from the
> convergence of national sovereignty assertions, international law
> considerations, and the general concerns of global and local
> Internet communities. Despite these competing pressures, ICANN
> must develop a framework agreement that would appeal to the
> majority of ccTLD operators, while recognizing the various
> national sovereignty issues involved. The establishment of a
> country code Name Supporting Organization (ccNSO) during the last
> year represents significant progress towards this end.
> ...
>
> Paul Twomey: mentions ccTLD as ccTLD administrators, and insists
> at length on ccNSO.
> ...
> Forming a Country-Code Names Supporting Organization to further
> participation in ICANN by the almost 250 ccTLDs around the world;
> ...
> A majority of the ICANN Board is
> now selected by ICANN's Nominating Committee, with the remainder
> being selected by ICANN's policy making bodies -- the Address
> Supporting Organization, Generic Names Supporting Organization
> and Country-Code Names Supporting Organization.
> ...
> In addition to the Board, the ICANN reforms of the past year created
> the Generic Names Supporting Organization and the Country-Code
> Names Supporting Organization as two new policy-making entities
> within ICANN.
> ...
> The ccNSO, the formation and structure of
> which was agreed to by all involved parties at the recent ICANN
> meeting in Montreal, is emblematic of the recent progress. It
> reflects a judgment by the country code Top Level Domains that
> they must be a part of the ICANN policy development process, and
> follows more than a year of detailed discussions between ICANN,
> ccTLD administrators and other interested parties.
> ...
> The ccNSO also includes a detailed Policy Development Process
> designed to ensure a balance of input from country code Top Level
> Domains from all geographic regions, and an established process
> by which to deal with policies of global concern affecting
> country code Top Level Domains.
> ...
> The At Large Advisory
> Committee also appoints delegates to ICANN's Nominating
> Committee, and liaisons to the managing Councils of the Generic
> Names Supporting Organization and the Country-Code Names
> Supporting Organization, as well as other ICANN committees and
> participatory bodies.
> ...
>
> Ari Balough speaks at length about ccTLD, from Verisign business
> perspective.
> ...
> ICANN's legitimacy is
> hampered by the non-inclusion/non-participation of regional
> numbering authorities, the collective community of root server
> operators or over 200 country code Top Level Domain registries.
> ...
> Besides
> other top-level domains like .biz and .info, there are over 200
> country-code top-level domains such as .de for Germany, .jp for
> Japan and .br for Brazil. These country specific domain names
> today represent nearly half of all registered names on the
> Internet; soon, they will account for the majority of domain
> names in the world. Yet only a handful of these 200+ country-code
> domain name operators have executed agreements with ICANN.
> ...
> This lack of true global support for ICANN limits ICANN's
> legitimacy. It is imperative that ICANN be streamlined into an
> organization that the country-code operators see benefit in
> joining, rather than a burden or risk.
> ...
> A good first step would be ICANN adopting an approach that
> respected sovereignty of the country-code operators and their
> ability to govern themselves. In short, to operate within an
> ICANN model without fear of ICANN dictates. Only then will the
> majority of this important constituency consider joining ICANN.
> ...
> For many
> -- such as root server operators and country-code domain name
> operators -- the 'pain' of joining ICANN (onerous contracts,
> lengthy review periods, and the unfortunate politicization of
> ICANN's administrative functions) has not made membership a
> viable option.
> ...
> We need a body that is legitimate and effective. If it is to be
> ICANN, ICANN must: --bolster its legitimacy by ensuring that
> critical Internet constituencies that are responsible for the
> operation of the global networks and domain names are active and
> supportive members; --limit its attempts at business
> micro-management in a way that will invite the participation of
> ccTLD registries, IP numbering registries and root server
> operators and encourage innovation and new services; --abandon
> its aspirations to be the unchartered FCC of the Internet; and
> --sponsor the discussions and actions regarding the Internet's
> security and growth that will ratify a view among all
> constituencies that the institution is adding real value.
> ...
>
> Alan Davidson mentions ccTLD for its own purpose.
> ...
> And it has recently established
> the framework for agreements with country-code Top-Level Domains
> (ccTLDs).
> ...
> They are a striking contrast to the very limited ccTLD
> agreement framework, which may indicate how little is really
> needed to insure stable coordination of the domain name system.
> ...
> Moreover, if ICANN is perceived as an unaccountable organization
> whose activities impinge the rights of users worldwide, then
> powerful entities such as foreign governments, the ITU, or even
> the United Nations will accelerate their search for alternatives.
> Such approaches would likely include a vastly expanded role for
> governments, and could fuel efforts at multilateral regulation of
> the Internet -- a costly and user-unfriendly environment that
> could constrain innovation substantially.
> ...
> 6. Acceptance
> by key stakeholders, ccTLDs, Regional Internet Registries, etc.
> ...
> Currently, the registrant of a domain name in the public gTLDs
> and many ccTLDs must make certain technical and administrative
> contact information available in the "Whois" database accessible
> to the public online.
> ...
>
> Paul Stahura: no single word about ccTLD, ccNSO or country-code.
>
> --
> Kind regards
> Elisabeth Porteneuve
> --
Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 131k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others" -
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