[CCWG-ACCT] CCWG-Accountability-WS2-NoticeofApproval

[parminder]

As to what does the final report and decisions of the CCWG on
jurisdiction related issues mean for the world, here is a hot-off-the
press sample.

Iran is being taken off global financial grid, just because one US
President says so.

https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1450521/swift-suspends-iran-banks

and hear the threat

"I promise you that doing business with Iran in defiance of our
sanctions will ultimately be a much more painful business decision than
pulling out of Iran and being connected to Iran entirely," says the US
Secretary of State ...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/us-warns-of-severe-swift-penalties-for-firms-continuing-sanctionable-commercial-transactions-with-iran-5509241.html

Simply bec though democrats under Obama were fine with getting along
with Iran, the new President Trump is not, and so it is not even a
bi-partisan US decision, but then Iran is to be suffocated by de-linking
it from global financial grids.

The question for the IG-ians is: Why cant or wont the US do the same for
the Internet, its DNS and routing systems? That isnt much more drastic
than throwing a country off global financial grids .  US, as any country
in its position would perhaps do in self interest, is just being nice on
IG and digital issues becuase this is an advance area where global
structures and advantages are being built and it does not want to rock
the boat at this formative stage till its dominance and controls are
unassailable. ]

Once things settle down, you'd find similar threats and sanctions with
regard to DNS and routing systems of the Internet -- to which
problematic future situation this group has now contributed -- and is
indeed clapping and celebrating it.. ( But perhaps someone here can
explain why it wont happen with the Internet. )

Would those who have assiduously promoted and curated the US centred and
controlled global IG model, and now have proudly concluded that there is
no need to do anything about the jurisdictional controls under which
some key infrastructural aspects of the global Internet operates,
explain? If indeed they think they owe any explanation to anyone at
all.  That would be accountability, given that this is CCWG -
Accountability.

parminder


On 30/10/18 10:18 AM, parminder wrote:
>
>
> On 30/10/18 12:06 AM, Bernard Turcotte wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> We are pleased to inform you that all the Chartering Organizations
>> have approved the WS 2 recommendations by the end of ICANN 63.
>>
>> The text of the various approvals can be found in the attached
>> document. Please note that the GAC approved all the recommendations
>> with the exception of the Jurisdiction recommendations which it did
>> not approve or reject.
>>
> One is glad that the world was was saved the ignominy of its
> governments formally accepting that it is fine that one country should
> keep ruling over a key global infrastructure. Also, good that the
> report itself notes that the group could not fully agree on what
> issues of jurisdiction were really to be covered by it, and that some
> of them need to be discussed and sorted out in the future. 
>
> This is a very important conceptual and in-principle win for global
> democracy, and democratic rule of law -- if just a rearguard defensive
> action. The credit for it almost exclusively goes to the valiant and
> intelligent Brazilian diplomats  involved in the process, whom I
> congratulate and thank heartily.
>
> Meanwhile, one does greatly regret that a once-in-decades chance to
> make ICANN truly globally democratic (as was in fact called for by
> NetMundial Conference) has been missed. As the global Internet is
> beginning to split in cold war like zones and shells (as alsoclaimed
> by no less that Eric Schmidt
> <https://www.businessinsider.in/Googles-ex-CEO-Eric-Schmidt-says-the-internet-will-split-in-two-by-2028/articleshow/65900060.cms>),
> lack of globally democratic IG structures will need to share their
> considerable responsibility for this dangerous slide. We could have
> done something here to try and make things better, but dominant
> interests prevailed once again. History will, unfortunately, look back
> on this process as a missed opportunity.
>
> parminder
>
>> As such the Co-Chairs will be transmitting the WS2 recommendations to
>> the ICANN Board for approval and implementation.
>>
>> We will post updates to this list as the process for approval by the
>> Board and implementation by ICANN progress.
>>
>> Thank you again to everyone who contributed to this work over the
>> past two years or so. It is a great accomplishment to be able to
>> forward the proposals on to the ICANN board with the broad support of
>> the chartering organizations.
>>
>>  
>>
>> The CCWG-Accountability Co-Chairs
>>
>> Thomas, Jordan, Tijani
>>
>>
>> sent by 
>>
>> Bernard Turcotte
>>
>> ICANN Staff Support to the CCWG-Accountabilit WS2
>>
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