Re: [lac-discuss-en] Internet Governance Webinar Conversation Opportunity With ICANN Senior Executives

Dear Johnny,

thanks for your note. Please permit me to reply to your enquiry, copying
our ccNSO Liaison:

On 07/11/2013 14:25, Johnny Laureano wrote:
>
> The Structure and Delegation FRC1591 Names and Domain Name System (J.
> Postel , March 94 ) , explains the purposes of administration of the ccTLD
> manager's responsibility "designated" and the duty to serve the community .
>
>  It is common knowledge that currently ccTLDs are currently governed by
> nonprofit organizations or private companies and possibly by individual
> users. All commercial purposes , therefore, used commercial rates and with
> few purposes to serve to the community, currently their design business
> and development plans do not include the interests of the community, the
> multiple government actors, such as ICANN promotes today .

ccTLDs are run by a real variety of organisations, from governments to
for profit, to not for profit, to individuals.
Some might include the interests of the community and some might not.

>
> My comment and question are :
>
> 1. It is essential and coherent strategic development of Internet
> Governance and the promotion of multi-stakeholder governance, using all the
> tools that a government management of multiple stakeholders can develop in
> the administration of the ccTLD country. This is a very important point in
> the schedule of the board in a next future.

ccTLDs are actually fully sovereign. ICANN has no possibility to impose
any kind of rules over ccTLD operators, especially when it comes to the
type of organisation that is running the ccTLD. So whilst I might agree
with you personally in principle, I'm sorry but the way ICANN is set-up,
it cannot tell ccTLDs what to do. In fact, we have to also admit that
some ccTLDs have existed before ICANN. And also that some ccTLDs are not
ccNSO members, hence they really have nothing to do with ICANN.


>
> 2. What may do the ICANN senior management regarding the strategic
> importance of promoting Internet Governance , local and global , from this
> perspective?.

With regards to ccTLDs: there is nothing ICANN senior management can do.
I believe it is up to the Country Code operators, the ccTLD operators,
to willingly share best practice scenarios and to also in some cases,
convince their respective governments, of the importance of using
multi-stakeholder principles of governance in the administration of the
ccTLD so as for it to serve the Public Interest. They can share
information among each other, but I don't think that any ccTLD operator
will let someone else tell them what to do.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Olivier

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