[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] The States are Getting into the Act

[Gomes, Chuck]

You lost me Sam.  I suggest we stick to ICANN’s remit. We are obligated to do that.
Chuck

From: Sam Lanfranco [mailto:sam at lanfranco.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 3:42 PM
To: Gomes, Chuck; gnso-rds-pdp-wg at icann.org
Subject: Re: [gnso-rds-pdp-wg] The States are Getting into the Act


Chuck,

This is where there is a single major disagreement. We all agree that "ICANN is all of the SOs and ACs and SGs and Cs; [and] it is not just staff or the Board". That is not the issue. The source of disagreement is over whether or not that inclusive multistakeholder ICANN has total domain over the RDS system within the larger scope of Internet governance, or instead, ICANN only has domain over the RDS system within its well delineated remit.

The disagreement is with regard to the wider remit of Internet governance beyond ICANN. That wider remit includes individual national Internet policy and regional/global (UN/multilateral) Internet policy. For worse or better, that wider remit may dominate ICANN policy implementation. In that wider Internet governance remit ICANN (inclusive and multistakeholder) is a vested interest "third party" stakeholder. ICANN can champion good strategy and best practice within its remit. ICANN can champion good strategy and best practice as a stakeholder in that wider remit. However, ICANN does not have the authority to dominate or determine national and multilateral policy. Its role there is as a stakeholder, hopefully pressing for the common good, and certainly trying to protect the boundaries of its own remit.  That is as clearly as I can say it so I will shut up and return to supporting the best RDS policy ICANN can craft.
Sam L.
On 6/22/2016 2:58 PM, Gomes, Chuck wrote:
Let me point out that for the sake of this discussion, ICANN is not some third party; we are ICANN.  ICANN is all of the SOs and ACs and SGs and Cs; it is not just staff or the Board.  It is our task as a WG to try to develop answers to the questions that have been asked and develop policy if possible for an RDS system.  The  GNSO Council will then decide whether we have followed proper procedures and process and, if so, forward our policy recommendations to the Board.  Nothing can become policy unless the Board approves it and they have a responsibility to respect the multistakeholder process that we are all a part of in ICANN.
Chuck



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