<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Great statement - I fully support it.<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Mar 17, 2014, at 6:51 AM, Kathy Kleiman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">+1 Good statement, tx Milton!<br>
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<div>Great statement, and a great principle. I hope it receives
wide support within the NCSG and NCSG PC for endorsement.</div>
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<div>Thanks.</div>
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<div>On Mar 17, 2014, at 2:52 AM, Rafik Dammak <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><p class="">Hi Everyone,</p><p class="">(cc NCSG-PC)</p><p class="">Milton volunteered and drafted this statement
regarding the NTIA announcement. we should be able to
discuss (commenting here <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VAkGj39ou5YkypFt0Vwqvyd1FTK31Ojm29s_gX-Ugrw/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VAkGj39ou5YkypFt0Vwqvyd1FTK31Ojm29s_gX-Ugrw/edit?usp=sharing</a>
) and endorse it asap before Singapore meeting to show
support and indicate our initial positions . <br>
</p><p class="">Best Regards,<br>
</p><p class="">Rafik<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><p class="">NCSG Statement on the globalization of the
IANA functions</p><p class="">The Noncommercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG)
welcomes the 13 March 2014 statement from the U.S.
Commerce Department announcing its intention to
“transition key Internet domain name functions to the
global multistakeholder community.” We support this move
because an Internet governance regime that gives one
national government exclusive powers over a global
resource is bound to be politically biased, divisive and
promote tendencies toward Internet fragmentation. This
change is long overdue.</p><p class="">NCSG supports all 5 of the principles NTIA
proposed to guide the transition. We agree that the
transition should:</p><p class="">• Support and enhance the multistakeholder
model;</p><p class="">• Maintain the security, stability, and
resiliency of the Internet DNS;</p><p class="">• Meet the needs and expectation of the global
customers and partners of the IANA services;</p><p class="">• Maintain the openness of the Internet;</p><p class="">• Not replace the NTIA role with a
government-led or an inter-governmental organization.</p><p class="">It is very important to replace the current
system with a carefully considered, well-designed
alternative. We note that noncommercial stakeholders
have been leaders in developing plans for the proposed
transition. Submissions to the Netmundial conference
from two NCSG members, the Internet Governance Project
and Avri Doria, have set out specific blueprints for the
transition.</p><p class="">Consistent with both of these proposals, NCSG
proposes an additional principle to guide the
transition. The transition should:</p><p class="">• Enhance the accountability of ICANN through
structural separation of the DNS root zone management
functions from ICANN’s policy making functions</p><p class="">The root zone management functions, which are
currently performed by Verisign, Inc. and IANA under
contracts with the U.S. government, are clerical,
technical and operational, The policy making functions
of ICANN, on the other hand, are highly political. NCSG
believes that those two aspects of DNS governance must
be kept apart, in separate organizations. Separating
them ensures that those with policy and political
objectives must win support for their ideas in a fair
and open policy development process, and cannot
arbitrarily impose them upon Internet users and service
providers by virtue of their control of the operational
levers of the global domain name system.</p><p class="">The existing IANA contract attempts to keep
the two separate; however, if ICANN simply absorbs the
IANA and Verisign functions without any oversight from
the U.S. government, there is a danger that the two
could become integrated and intermingled in unhealthy
ways. That is why the NCSG, along with supporters from
other stakeholder groups, will insist on this new
principle of separation during the transition process.</p><p class="">The Department of Commerce has asked ICANN to
“conven[e] stakeholders across the global Internet
community to craft an appropriate transition plan.”
Unfortunately, ICANN’s management seems to have
interpreted this as a mandate to implement its own
transition plan, in which it would simply take over the
IANA functions with no oversight. NCSG wishes to remind
ICANN that it has been charged with convening a process,
not with controlling it. The transition will not work
unless ICANN runs a truly open and deliberative process
that allows the all ideas to be considered and the best
ideas to win.</p><p class="">NCSG is the voice of civil society and
nonprofit organizations in ICANN’s domain name policy
making organ, the Generic Names Supporting Organization.
It is composed of two constituencies, the Noncommercial
Users Constituency (<span class=""><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://ncuc.org/">http://ncuc.org</a></span>)
and the Non-Profit Operational Constituencies (<span class=""><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.npoc.org/">http://www.npoc.org</a></span>)</p>
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