Re: [npoc-voice] April 2 2014 WEBCAST of United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee on ICANN/IANA Transition

[Olivier Kouami <olivierkouami@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you so much dear Sam.
We need to have a serious follow-up of this process until the term date of
september, 30 2015.
Thanks again daer Professor?
Cheers !
-Olevje-



2014-04-02 18:13 GMT+00:00 Sam Lanfranco <lanfran@xxxxxxxx>:

>  Dear NPOC members:
>
> April 2, 2014 [by Sam Lanfranco]: The United States Congress' House of
> Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee has just finished a three
> hour session on the NTIA announcement to (a) transition oversight of IANA
> and (b) charging ICANN with developing the proposal for that transition
> process.
>
> The videos of the session should soon be posted to:
> http://energycommerce.house.gov/studio/videos and to
> http://www.youtube.com/user/energyandcommerce
>
> Fadi Chehadé testified at the session and did an excellent presentation of
> ICANN and ICANN's role in this process. There were partisan comments and
> questions and the issues that, in my view, boiled to the top were the
> following:
>
>  First, there are two multistakeholder issues here. One is how the
> multistakeholder approach will work in the open and transparent development
> of a transition of IANA oversight. The world will be watching both the
> process and how national governments (the US and others) interact with and
> respond to that process. Second, what sort of multistakeholder based
> proposal will be the product of this process?  Both are equally important
> with the multistakeholder model as a key foundation element.
>
> Second, there is no pressure of deadlines. The fall of 2015 is a
> milestone, not a cliff. It will be a good time to assess progress, but the
> process has more time (two 2-year extensions) to have a good
> multistakeholder process produce a good multistakeholder governance result.
>
> Third, it is clear that NTIA (aka the US Government) will not sign off on
> a proposal that compromises the four principles stated in the NTIA
> announcement.
>
> Fourth: There was, and will continue to be, concern that whatever the
> proposed governance and oversight structures would be for the IANA
> functions, there is the worry that at some time governments hostile to an
> open Internet would be in a position to capture control of significant
> aspects of the domain name system. One cannot predict the future, so that
> issue has to be addressed with adequate care. The Committee talked about
> "stress testing" any proposal. In my view any proposal should embody
> elements of the "precautionary principle" with regard to unexpected
> challenges to Internet openness and multistakeholder governance.
>
> Fifth: Some members of the committee noted the breadth and depth of global
> stakeholder use of the Internet and urged efforts to broader the engagement
> of stakeholders, both in this process and in the wider governance and
> operational issues of the Internet.
> The videos of the session should soon be posted to:
> http://energycommerce.house.gov/studio/videos and to
> http://www.youtube.com/user/energyandcommerce
>
>


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