[CCWG-ACCT] Please review regarding IAB comments on Mission Statement

[Nigel Roberts]

Does 'support' translate to 'regulate'??


On 10/30/2015 09:04 PM, Burr, Becky wrote:
> CCWG Members –
>
> The IAB has raised a significant concern about the Mission Statement,
> which currently describes ICANN’s role of /coordinating the allocation
> and assignment of the DNS’ unique identifiers, including //Protocol port
> and parameter numbers/.  As some of you may recall, in early comments
> they suggested changing the word “coordination” to “support.”  WP2
> discussed this and declined to modify the existing language in the
> Bylaws, but provided an opportunity for the ASO, the Root Server
> community, and the port/parameter community to provide their own
> description of what policy “coordination” would mean in each (i.e.,
> names, numbers, root servers, protocol/parameters) context.
>
> Andrew Sullivan, Chair of IAB, has informed me that the IAB remains very
> concerned about the Mission Statement.  According to Andrew (on behalf
> of the IAB), “the mission statement (including the chapeau) is
> misleading, has caused us problems in the past, and has been false at
> least since the end of the PSO [Protocol Supporting Organization] and
> arguably before that. In particular, according to the IAB, “ICANN does
> not "coordinate, at the overall level, the global Internet's systems of
> unique identifiers.”
>
>
> This issue was discussed in the Public Forum in Dublin, and Steve
> Crocker expressed support for working to align ICANN’s description of
> its role in this area more precisely:
>
>
>>         ANDREW SULLIVAN: Hi, my name is Andrew Sullivan. And I'm chair
>>         of the Internet Architecture Board. The mission of ICANN
>>         currently has text that ICANN -- and I quote -- is to
>>         coordinate at the overall level, the global Internet systems
>>         of unique identifiers. End quote. That's not precisely true
>>         any more and hasn't been at least since the protocol
>>         supporting organization disappeared from ICANN. I'm wondering
>>         whether the Board is open to changing this part of the mission
>>         since it's open anyway in the CCWG process?____
>>
>>         __ __
>>
>>         STEVE CROCKER: I think I'm the designated hitter here. Andrew,
>>         thank you very much. There's been a somewhat uncomfortable
>>         disparity between some of the words that we use to describe
>>         ourselves and some of the words that our close friends use to
>>         describe us. We have -- and we've -- some of us have been
>>         paying attention for a while. The good news -- I think it's
>>         extremely good news -- is that over the last relatively short
>>         period of time, we have built a much stronger technical team,
>>         step one. And step 2 is would are we have actually got them
>>         connected to the communications process. Harder than I would
>>         have liked it to have been. But it's now there. And it's been
>>         one of these behind the scenes things of where we've been
>>         pressing. So I think that, going forward, we're going to try
>>         to align our words in a more careful way. There's always a lot
>>         of equities about how many words you use to describe yourself
>>         which, you know. But I think some greater precision and
>>         adjustment of the nuances is well in order. __
>>
> The IAB has provided some proposed text, which addresses the concerns of
> its members.I have attached a side-by-side comparison of (1) the
> Existing Mission Statement; (2) the current CCWG proposal; and (3) the
> IAB proposal.I should note that the proposed changes appear to be more
> dramatic than they actually are.Most of the changes reflect moving the
> language around.The substantive changes include:
>
> Current Bylaws/CCWG Proposal
>
> 	
>
> IAB Proposal
>
> ICANN’s mission is to “coordinate, at the overall level, the global
> Internet’s system of unique identifiers”
>
> 	
>
> ICANN’s mission is to “support, at the overall level, core Internet
> registries”
>
> ICANN coordinates the allocation and assignment of “Domain Names
> (forming a system referred to as “DNS”)
>
> 	
>
> ICANN coordinates the allocation and assignment of “names in the root
> zone of the Domain Name System (“DNS”)
>
> ICANN coordinates the “allocation and assignment of protocol port and
> parameter numbers”
>
> 	
>
> ICANN “collaborates with other bodies as appropriate to publish core
> registries needed for the functioning of the Internet.”
>
>
> As indicated above, a more complete comparison is attached.  Given the
> strength of the IAB’s views on this point, I thought it was important to
> raise this issue for discussion.
>
> Becky
>
> J. Beckwith Burr
> Deputy General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer
>
>
>
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