[WP2] Mission, Commitments and Core Values REVISED for discussion tomorrow am

[David Post]

I agree with Bruce that either "coordinates" or "facilitates" 
usefully describe ICANN's role with respect to policy development.  I 
think the important point is to make it clear that ICANN itself isn't 
responsible for making that policy - the stakeholder community has 
that responsibility; ICANN's job is to help them (coordinating or 
facilitating) do that, and then to implement the policies that 
emerge.  Either word, I think, makes this clear -
David


At 05:00 AM 7/13/2015, Bruce Tonkin wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>
> >>  - if forced to choose between [support] and [coordinate] I 
> would choose to say [support and coordinate].
>
>One thing is to consider is ICANN's role with respect to the various 
>sets of identifiers:
>
>- for example for protocol parameters - it is really just operating 
>a registry - it doesn't create or set the values for the protocol parameters
>
>- for IP addresses it really just coordinates allocation of address 
>blocks to the regional internet registries.  It doesn't directly set policy etc
>
>- for ccTLDs - I think ICANN is mostly operating a registry via the 
>IANA function - but there has been some coordination with respect to 
>allocation of IDN-ccTLDs
>
>- for gTLDS - ICANN manages the policies recommended by the GNSO
>
>So in most cases I think "coordinates" is probably the right word - 
>but it has a slightly stronger role with respect to gTLDs - perhaps 
>"facilitates" policy development within the community.
>
>Regards,
>Bruce Tonkin
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