[CCWG-ACCT] Stress Test 18: relevant comments from US Congressional staff during Sunday session in Dublin

Paul Rosenzweig paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com
Mon Oct 19 17:55:33 UTC 2015


I am more than happy to acknowledge that the GAC does not want to be bound to consensus-based advice.  So long, however, as it wishes to have its advice given preferential treatment it is going to have to have special rules.  And yes, please don’t make the argument that the Board is legally capable of rejecting the GAC’s advice even after consultation – we deal here in the reality that GAC advice will =always= have a special place before the Board.  Hence the absolute need to cabin it?

 

So … I will turn it around and ask the GAC members – are you willing to give up the provisions that require the Board to give the GAC special consideration?  Of course not.  And that in turn demonstrates precisely why the GAC argument fails.

 

I add only one additional point – the statements below by the congressional staff who were in Dublin mirror precisely what the NTIA representatives have said in the CCWG on any number of occasions (most clearly, that I recall, in Paris in March).  By all means, if you want the transition to fail, insist on deleting ST18.  But then you will bear the blame.  For one thing is certain – without ST18 the transition will fail.

 

Paul

 

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From: Steve DelBianco [mailto:sdelbianco at netchoice.org] 
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 1:21 PM
To: Accountability Cross Community <accountability-cross-community at icann.org>
Subject: [CCWG-ACCT] Stress Test 18: relevant comments from US Congressional staff during Sunday session in Dublin

 

On Sunday afternoon ICANN hosted a discussion on the IANA Stewardship Transition. (link <https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule/sun-transition-perspectives> )

In the first section, Ira Magaziner, the Chief Internet Policy Advisor for U.S. President Bill Clinton spoke about the challenges of the global Internet community in finalizing the transition. 

 

The second portion of this session had four senior staff members of the U.S. Congress talk about the transition from a Capitol Hill perspective.

 

Below is the scribe feed from Congressional views relevant to our Dublin discussions of Stress Test 18

 

>>JEFFREY FARRAH: CHAIRMAN THUNE HAS BEEN INVOLVED AND UP TO DATE ON THIS PROCESS THROUGHOUT, AND GIVING THE TIMING OF WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE TRANSITION AND THE DISCUSSIONS.   HE FELT LIKE THIS WAS AN APPROPRIATE TIME TO AGAIN STATE WHAT HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE OUT OF A TRANSITION….. YOU MENTIONED IN 2014 HE AND SENATOR RUBIO WEIGHED IN ON SPECIFIC REFORMS AND IT WAS AT THAT TIME THAT HE SAID THAT HE WANTED TO SEE IT IN THE BYLAWS THAT ONLY GAC ADVICE BY CONSENSUS WOULD BE CONSIDERED BY THE BOARD. THAT IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT WE'LL BE ACTIVELY WATCHING THOSE PROCEEDINGS.

 

>>DAVID REDL: WE'RE REALLY HOPING TO SEE A RIGOROUS ANALYSIS OF WHATEVER PROPOSAL IS PUT IN FRONT OF NTIA. I WOULD AGAIN REITERATE WHAT JEFF SAID ABOUT THE ROLE OF CONSENSUS IN THE GAC, IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A MULTISTAKEHOLDER SYSTEM, THEN WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY BE TALKING ABOUT A MULTISTAKEHOLDER SYSTEM WHERE ONLY THOSE GROUPS THAT HAVE PRODUCED CONSENSUS ARE ABLE TO BRING SOMETHING UP. THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT ASPECT FOR US AS WELL.

 

>>DAVID GOLDMAN: JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON THE POINT ABOUT CONSENSUS, THAT'S COMPLETELY CONSISTENT WITH THE POSITIONS THAT THE DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS IN THE HOUSE HAVE TAKEN SO FAR.

 

>>DAVID REDL:  THE THINGS THAT OUR BOSSES HAVE RAISED IN HEARINGS ARE BEING ADDRESSED. YOU KNOW A LOT OF THE STRESS TESTS THAT ARE BEING DONE AS A PART OF THIS PROCESS WERE THINGS THAT WERE RAISED IN HEARINGS AT ENERGY AND COMMERCE AND SENATE COMMERCE.

 

 

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Steve DelBianco

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