[RSSAC Caucus] [SOAC-Leaders-ICANNMeeting-Planning] At-Large Submission to the HIT Plenary Programme

Thu Dec 19 04:25:41 UTC 2019

I'm changing the CC to the RSSAC Caucus, which, in addition to my vice-chair and relevant staff, includes the RSSAC and a number of DNS experts in other locations. I have not solicited their opinions, in large part due to temporal issues - you need an answer in less than 48 hours. I therefore speak for myself, and for the perspective that the RSS is and has since the 1980's been predicated on the concepts you will find in RFC RFC 2826, the IAB's Technical Comment on the Unique DNS Root.

I think that splintering the Internet into three shards - or a great many more, which I suspect will happen if current BRIC forces hold sway - will make the conceptual basis for the RSS very tenuous indeed, and will economically hurt those countries that pursue the path. This is far beyond slogans. The Internet has empowered the economies of 60 countries or more, and is being promoted to enhance the economies of about 140 more. By destroying the markets the Internet has created or facilitated, the BRICI countries threaten to undermine world markets - and especially their own.

What is proposed by Russia and others is one of two things - either a wresting of Internet governance away from those who have done it to date to the BRIC countries, or a return to many of the concepts behind the PSTN, including the creation of national DNS roots, or possibly other divisions. We once worried that having more than a few common generic TLDs would mean that IPR-holders would have to register each name in each of them, which is something that was eventually formally set aside. Now, I worry that each name-holder will be forced to register a name in each of 200-or-so name service systems (whether DNS, DoH, or something else entirely), or forfeit whatever business they normally get from them. Those countries that follow that route also forfeit whatever business they might have gotten via those same companies. Russia has already formalized this, as I understand it; names used in Russia pretty much have to be Russian names served by Russian servers.

So, from my perspective, both as chair of RSSAC and a contributor to Internet technology for rather a while, I think this is a very valid topic, and expect that RSSAC people will find it interesting.

> On Dec 18, 2019, at 4:53 PM, Tanzanica S. King <tanzanica.king at icann.org> wrote:
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> All,
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> We have two confirmed plenary session topics for ICANN67:
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> The Domain Name Services Marketplace - Market Dynamics, Business Models and Commercial Drivers
> Monday, 09 March 2020, 17:00-18:30
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> The DNS and the IoT: Opportunities, Risks, and Challenges
> Thursday, 12 March 2020, 09:00-10:30
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> The 3rd proposed session on "Building Greater Trust in the ICANN Multi-stakeholder Process among Policymakers in Government" was withdrawn. However, At-Large has an alternate session proposal for your consideration to fill the remaining slot on Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 09:00-10:30. 
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> Please see the session details outlined by Maureen below and let us know how you would like to proceed. We must finalize the block schedule by this Friday, 20 December, so time is of the essence.
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> Best,
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> Tanzanica
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> From: Maureen Hilyard <maureen.hilyard at gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday , 18 December 2019 at 15:28
> To: Tanzanica King <tanzanica.king at icann.org>, "so-ac-sg-cleaders at icann.org" <so-ac-sg-cleaders at icann.org>
> Subject: [Ext] At-Large Submission to the HIT Plenary Programme
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> Dear SOAC Colleagues and Tanzanica
>  
> I hope that you have excused the slip that was made earlier when one of our members submitted a proposal without going through the proper processes.  However, we do have a proposal that, although I know it is a little late, our CPWG team hope you will seriously consider for inclusion into the ICANN67 HIT programme. The proposal is as follows. Sorry it is not in the formal template (in my haste to get it to you all before you go on holiday!)
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> Title: “One world - one internet?” Cybersecurity and geopolitics in a multistakeholder environment
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> This session/roundtable seeks to explore the modern day rationale for ICANN's policy of "One World. One Internet." In time of enhancing splinternet, prevailing cybersovereignity trends and states taking forever more effective measures to ensure their jurisdiction over what they consider to be "their" part of cyberspace. It is in this context that ICANN's global stewardship role has grown more significant than ever. This session seeks to explore how to best justify ICANN's "One world. One Internet" policy in the face of global disruptive trends. It specifically looks at national and regional security and privacy laws as well as new communication protocols, seeking to find how they attend or add to this challenge.
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> The point of departure for this panel will be the perspective onto global IG as presented in his 2018 IGF speech by President Macron, referring to three different options for global Internet: the California based one, the EU focused one and the Chinese one (https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2018-speech-by-french-president-emmanuel-macron [intgovforum.org] ). We will seek to jointly explore whether current and upcoming global trends actually do indicate Internet fragmentation or whether ICANN can legitimately sustain its “One World. One Internet” narrative. If so, what is the modern day rationale behind it?
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> The desired outcome of this session is to identify and present to the ICANN community a coherent, comprehensive narrative on why "One world. One internet" remains a valid policy narrative in the time of disruptive global trends and how to best communicate it to the different stakeholders outside ICANN.
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> Panelists (TBC): Patrik Fältström, Rod Rasmussen/Merike Kaeo, Peter Micek (AccessNow)/Thomas Rickert (EPDP), Lousewies van der Laan (?)/GAC Rep (Manal Ismail?), León Sanchez, ISOC Rep?
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> Keywords: cybersecurity, privacy, GDPR, splinternet, sovereignty, jurisdiction
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> Best regards,
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> Joanna Kulesza, PhD
> assistant professor of international law and Internet governance
> Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz
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