Questions to the Board in ICANN60

[Matthew Shears]

Hi Sam

Interesting take.  I agree with you on your first framing.

On the second though, isn't ICANN already doing just that through 
GE/GSE, etc.

Matthew


On 10/10/2017 02:11, Sam Lanfranco wrote:
> I would like to follow up Stephanie & Milton's comments here with a 
> particular perspective.
> There are two ways to frame this question and while they may appear to 
> just be variations of the same question, they are not.
>
> The first framing is:/Should ICANN extend its internal pdp-wg focus 
> beyond the stability and security of the DNS? /
>
> The second framing is a bit more complications and needs a Whereas 
> preface:
>
>   * Whereas global Internet ecosystem governance policy issues and
>     policy making are growing rapidly
>
>   * Whereas ICANN, with its particular remit, is a stakeholder in
>     global Internet  ecosystem governance
>
> /S//hould ICANN respond as a stakeholder within the broader 
> multistakeholder global Internet ecosystem policy development process?/
>
> My own assessment of the situation is that ICANN should answer NO to 
> the first framing of the question,
> but that it should answer YES to the engagement as found in the second 
> framing of the question.
>
> The global Internet ecosystem is beginning to struggle with how it 
> builds the structures and processes for policy making within the 
> broader global Internet ecosystem.
> ICANN is a stakeholder and should participant in that process, but how 
> ICANN should do that is not an easy question to answer.
> But being not easy does not mean that ICANN should ignore the challenge.
>
> ICANN should be a stakeholder participant from the start, initially 
> helping to build the structures and processes for policy making within 
> the broader global Internet ecosystem.
> For ICANN not to take an active stakeholder role in that wider process 
> would likely mean that may matters of policy substance that currently 
> reside within ICANN's remit would
> slowly erode away to other global Internet ecosystem policy forums, 
> and slowly reduce ICANN to a solely technology-centric policy focus.
> The challenge for ICANN is not YES or NO, but YES and HOW?
>
> To repeat my position. The second question is:/  S//hould ICANN 
> respond as a stakeholder within the broader multistakeholder global 
> Internet ecosystem policy development process?
>
> /My position is YES and the internal ICANN dialogue should be around 
> the HOW.
> This, of course, goes way being a single question for a meeting with 
> the Board.
>
>
> Sam Lanfranco
> NCSG/NPOC
>
>
> / On 10/5/2017 7:49 PM, Stephanie Perrin wrote://
> /
>> // //
>>
>> /I second that motion.../
>>
>> //
>>
>> /Stephanie//
>> /
>>
>> ///
>> ///
>> /On 2017-10-05 17:07, Mueller, Milton L wrote://
>> /
>> //
>>> //
>>> /Could we make this question a more general one about the various 
>>> pressures for ICANN to expand its mission? Dr. Milton Mueller 
>>> Professor, School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology /
>

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