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

[Seun Ojedeji]

It means you may not have read their submission to the second CCWG PC

http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-ccwg-accountability-03aug15/msg00018.html

Regards

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Kindly excuse brevity and typos.
On 31 Oct 2015 01:40, "Kavouss Arasteh" <kavouss.arasteh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Becky
> Yes , at the recent ICG meeting they raised the concerns and I  informed
>  the meeting that if they write to CCWG we will reconsider the matter and
> rake a decision , as appropriate
> Kavouss
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 30 Oct 2015, at 22:04, Burr, Becky <Becky.Burr at neustar.biz> 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
>
> <IAB Proposed Mission Statement Changes 30 October.pdf>
>
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