[CCWG-ACCT] NTIA Report

[Phil Corwin]

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From: accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Shears
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 6:37 AM
To: accountability-cross-community at icann.org
Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] NTIA Report

Completely agree - well said.


On 6/9/2016 11:17 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:08:37AM +0200, Thomas Rickert wrote:
>
>> diligently by different agencies and experts. Now we can truly say 
>> that it was not just „us" thinking what we came up with is a good 
>> quality work product, but we got confirmation from experts not 
>> previously engaged in the process. I hope this helps to remove 
>> remaining concerns there might be that the transition could put ICANN 
>> and the operation of the IANA functions at risk.
> I think this is a super-important part of what we should take from the 
> report, and I thank Thomas for highlighting it.
>
> The report, over and over, makes the point that community-driven 
> processes and effective community oversight are the ultimate 
> guarantors of responsibility.  In a network of networks, which is by 
> its very nature voluntary, the only way to ensure continued 
> interoperation, health, and growth is to make sure that all the 
> voluntary participants believe that they get something from joining or 
> sticking around.  This is the deep magic of internetworking: it only 
> happens if we all do it.  If someone tries to take it over it ends.
>
> What is wonderful to me in the report is the acknowledgement by people 
> who (it appears) normally work with other situations (companies and so
> on) that the unusual nature of internetworking requires unusual 
> management.  People not normally adjusted to "Internet ways" thought 
> about this, and recognized that an essentially voluntary system is 
> unamenable to central control, or to capture, or to coercion.  Their 
> analysis provides the basic rebuke to those who think anyone might be 
> "giving up" control.  The control was always, and remains, a myth.
>
> I know that some people look at our ways -- of doing things in public, 
> and of multiple plan revisions that seem to lurch from one extreme to 
> the other -- and find them chaotic and naïve.  They are wrong.  Our 
> ways produce results faster, with greater legitimacy, than another way 
> would for this kind of technology.  We may be messy, but we deliver.
> I shall be forever grateful to have seen this report on our collective 
> work.  I shall be forever mindful of how the crucible of disagreement 
> allowed us to find the pure element of collaborative success.
>
> Best regards,
>
> A
>

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Matthew Shears | Director, Global Internet Policy & Human Rights Project Center for Democracy & Technology | cdt.org
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