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<font face="Verdana">Perhaps you should be asking<br>
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Is floating and sustaining something like the Net Mundial
Initiative, whose express purpose is to address public policy
issues outside the names and numbers, and technical protocols and
coordination, something within ICANN's mandate?<br>
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(Since this is directly an issue where ICANN steps on governmental
toes, in that public policy is traditionally a gov space, this
question may be more relevant to the current discussion on GAC
advice and board's consequent obligations. Also it is a real,
manifest issue and not an abstraction.)<br>
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parminder <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Friday 08 January 2016 05:21 AM,
Andrew Sullivan wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 06:21:20PM -0500, Avri Doria wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Is training people on the DNS or DNSEC in the same category as content
censorship?
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Is capacity building in the sense of training people on DNS or DNSSEC
really outside ICANN's mission, in the CCWG's proposal? It seems to
me that that one could argue it helps the "ensure the stable and
secure operation of the Internet's unique identifier systems" realm.
If ICANN decided to get into teaching people how to deploy VoIP using
SIP, however, I'd wonder why. Or into web administration, or perhaps
(more in line with the analogy) WordPress or Drupal administration.
And those things do seem to me to be approximately as relevant to what
ICANN is doing as content censorship: I don't think ICANN should do
either.
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