[PC-NCSG] NCSG statement on US Government Announcement about transfer IANA functions stewardship

[Avri Doria]

i am comfortable with that statement.

avri


On 16-Mar-14 21:52, Rafik Dammak wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> (cc NCSG-PC)
>
> Milton volunteered and drafted this statement regarding the NTIA
> announcement. we should be able to discuss (commenting here
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VAkGj39ou5YkypFt0Vwqvyd1FTK31Ojm29s_gX-Ugrw/edit?usp=sharing
> ) and endorse it asap before Singapore meeting to show support and
> indicate our initial positions .
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Rafik
>
>
> ----------statement----------------
>
> NCSG Statement on the globalization of the IANA functions
>
> 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.
>
> NCSG supports all 5 of the principles NTIA proposed to guide the
> transition. We agree that the transition should:
>
> ? Support and enhance the multistakeholder model;
>
> ? Maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet DNS;
>
> ? Meet the needs and expectation of the global customers and partners of
> the IANA services;
>
> ? Maintain the openness of the Internet;
>
> ? Not replace the NTIA role with a government-led or an
> inter-governmental organization.
>
> 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.
>
> Consistent with both of these proposals, NCSG proposes an additional
> principle to guide the transition. The transition should:
>
> ? Enhance the accountability of ICANN through structural separation of
> the DNS root zone management functions from ICANN?s policy making functions
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 (http://ncuc.org) and the Non-Profit Operational
> Constituencies (http://www.npoc.org)
>
> ----------end of statement-------
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