[CCWG-Accountability] the term "community"

[Greg Shatan]

It is worth noting that the quartet of "Civil Society, Private Sector,
Technical Community including academics, Governments" doesn't map exactly
to the multistakeholder groups in ICANN.

In particular the "Private Sector" includes ICANN stakeholder communities
that are very divergent in their views, positions and "stakes," and thus
need to be viewed separately.  These would include the Registries
Stakeholder Group, the Registrar Stakeholder Group, the Internet Service
Provider and Connectivity Provider Constituency, the Business Users
Constituency and the Intellectual Property Constituency (with the latter 3
Constituencies comprising the Commercial Stakeholder Group), as well as
many of the ccTLDs (if not the ccNSO as such).  These should viewed as
discrete stakeholder groups, not as a monolithic "Private Sector".

A number of these groups also map to the "Technical Community" --
Registries, Registrars, ISPs/Connectivity Providers and ccTLDs.  It doesn't
make a great deal of sense to decide if these are Private Sector or
Technical Community.  Other ICANN groups that are in the technical
community (but not really in the Private Sector) include the ASO, SSAC and
the RSSAC.

At ICANN, the "academics" don't seem to show up in the technical community
(by and large).  Rather they seem to be predominantly involved in Civil
Society, which at ICANN seem to be the Noncommercial Stakeholder Group
(which includes the Noncommercial Users Constituency, the Non-Profit
Operational Concerns Constituency and some members that are not in a
constituency) and ALAC.

Governments seem to be the only group that has a similar identity in ICANN
as it does elsewhere (although Intergovernmental Organizations don't seem
to appear at ICANN; it is limited to direct government participation).

Finally, within ICANN I do not believe that these groups are limited to
functioning their "respective roles" as that term is used in the Tunis
Agenda.

Greg Shatan


On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Bruce Tonkin <
Bruce.Tonkin at melbourneit.com.au> wrote:

> Hello Kavouss,
>
> >>  I have one question which continued to bother me as everyone refers to
> "community"
>
> >>      What is that magic term "community» covers?
>
> >>      Does it includes or embrace the entire multistakeholders?
>
> >>      As it was discussed at several occasion, there is a defacto
> agreement that ,generally speaking multistakeholder composed        of
> Civil Society, Private Sector, Technical Community including academics,
> Governments
>
>
> I think that is a good question, and probably worth this group considering
> some definitions around that topic.
>
> For me personally, I tend to think of the terms in the following way:
>
> "ICANN Community" - this is the group of people that participate in the
> various ICANN working groups via email, phone, or websites,  and attend
> ICANN meetings.     This group is made up of individuals from GNSO
> constituencies and stakeholder groups, GAC, SSAC, ALAC, RSSAC, ccTLD
> representatives, RIR representatives etc.    In my personal view, it is
> multi-stakeholder in that it includes people from Civil Society, Private
> Sector, Technical Community including academics, Governments.
>
> In addition to that there is a wider community of people that are members
> of the various organizations that are in turn members of the various groups
> that comprise the ICANN community.   As an example, I am a member of the
> Internet Society of Australia (ISOC) which is part of the Asia, Australasia
> and the Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organisation (APRALO) which is
> part of At-large.   ISOC in Australia may send a representative to ICANN
> meetings.       A business might be a member of a chamber of commerce or
> business association, which in turn could be a member of the ICANN business
> constituency,  and that chamber of commerce or business association may
> send a representative to an ICANN meeting as a member of the ICANN
> community.   I don't have any specific name for this wider group of people
> and organizations.
>
> Then there is term "public" which is used within the term "global public
> interest".   In general, I personally think of the public in this context
> as Internet users.   However you could also consider public  in this
> context to be all the people of the world.   Even people that don't
> directly use the Internet as a communication mechanism are probably
> affected by it in some way.
>
> The fundamental responsibility of  the Board of ICANN  is to exercise
> their judgment to act in what they reasonably believe to be the best
> interests of the global public interest, taking account of the interests of
> the Internet community as a whole rather than any individual group or
> interest.    Its primary feedback mechanism for determining the global
> public interest is the "ICANN community" described above.
>
>
> Regards,
> Bruce Tonkin
>
>
>
>
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