[CWG-Stewardship] Composition of MRT

Sun Dec 14 17:49:52 UTC 2014

Donna:
I agree with you that gTLD registries should have parity with ccTLD registries in the MRT. In our original discussions of this composition, I proposed 5 and 5. But we just didn’t know how to create that parity easily given the GNSO’s 4- stakeholder group structure. I would encourage you think of ways to do that in ways that would be acceptable to the GNSO as a whole. Perhaps 2 from the RySG instead of 1 if you can get the other SGs to accept it.

Guru:
I would strongly oppose putting 5 GAC seats on the MRT. My initial idea was actually to have one ALAC, GAC and SSAC representative on the MRT. GAC is a policy advisory committee, so is ALAC. It makes absolutely no sense to have the MRT stacked with entities whose main concern is policy. Further, many governments are direct owners or licensors of their ccTLD so they would be represented when and if IANA functions affects them directly.

I think people are still getting confused about the role of policy and implementation, and viewing the MRT as a way to intervene in policy. This is very dangerous and needs to be discouraged. MRT is concerned with who the IANA contractor should be and with the accuracy, security, efficiency and stability with which the names IANA functions are implemented. That is all.

--MM

From: Donna Austin [mailto:Donna.Austin at ariservices.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2014 12:16 PM
To: Milton L Mueller; Guru Acharya; cwg-stewardship at icann.org
Subject: RE: [CWG-Stewardship] Composition of MRT

Milton,

Speaking as the RySG representative on the CWG: as direct customers of the IANA function, gTLD registries would seek at a minimum parity, in your proposal, for five members from the ccNSO. Your current composition is inherently imbalanced by providing for only 1 gTLD registry operator compared to 5 ccTLD registry operators.

While ccTLDs have in the past been the primary customer of the IANA naming services, the delegation of more than 400 new gTLDs means that this is no longer the case. If you can find rationale to have 5 ccTLD registry operators in your proposed composition of the MRT, I see no reason why this rationale should not be extended to gTLD registry operators.

Thanks,

Donna

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From: cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org<mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org> [mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Milton L Mueller
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Subject: Re: [CWG-Stewardship] Composition of MRT

Here’s an idea that some of us in NCSG are kicking around

We propose a 21-member team with 2 non-voting liaisons, with some kind of supermajority voting construct (⅔ or ⅘) for key decisions. The composition is structured and balanced to ensure that the MRT embodies a strong commitment to efficient and neutral administration of the DNS root zone rather than any specific policy agenda. Safeguards must be in place to ensure that it is independent of ICANN corporate but also cannot be captured or unduly influenced by governments, intergovernmental organizations, or specific economic interests.  The MRT should draw most of its ICANN community members from ICANN’s GNSO and ccNSO, with the GNSO forwarding 4 (1 member for each Stakeholder Group), and the ccNSO forwarding 5 (1 for each world region). The root server operators should also be represented on the MRT with 2 positions. Each ICANN Advisory Committee (GAC, SSAC and ALAC) should appoint 2 members. There should be 4 independent experts external to the ICANN community selected through a public nomination process administered by [who? ISOC? IEEE?] but subject to conflict of interest constraints. Additionally, 2 non-voting but fully participating liaisons from the other operational communities should be appointed (by ASO for numbers and by IAB for protocols) to facilitate coordination across the different IANA functions. MRT members should be appointed for limited terms sized appropriate to the contract renewal cycle.

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Subject: [CWG-Stewardship] Composition of MRT

The CWG is yet to decide the composition of the MRT. I was hoping someone could throw a strawman composition at us so that discussions can be initiated.

As reference, the composition of ICG is as follows:

ALAC x 2
ASO x 1
ccNSO x 4
GAC x 5
GNSO x 3
gTLD Registries x 2
ICC/BASIS x 1
IAB x 2
IETF x 2
ISOC x 2
NRO x 2
RSSAC x 2
SSAC x 2

1) Should members of non-naming communities (like IETF and ASO) be a part of MRT since our proposal only relates to the IANA for the names community? For example, the CRISP (numbers community) draft proposal does not envision names community members in its oversight mechanism.

2) Which stakeholder groups should be included beyond the ICANN community structures so that the MRT is representative of the global-multistakeholder community? For example, should IGF-MAG members have a place?

3) How do we include ccTLDs that are not ccNSO members?

4) How do we ensure membership from developing countries (not government, but civil society or technical community) - is some sort of affirmative action possible?
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