Garth,<div><br></div><div>If the ALAC/At-Large prepares an issues paper on the topic and shares it well enough in advance of the meeting for Board members to think about the issues and even discuss it among them, I would imagine that there would be better interaction and from a broader cross-section of Board members.</div><div><br></div><div>Rinalia</div><div><br></div><div><br><br>On Saturday, 23 April 2016, <a href="mailto:gbruen@knujon.com">gbruen@knujon.com</a> <<a href="mailto:gbruen@knujon.com">gbruen@knujon.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Rinalia, et al,<br>
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There is a problem here. The underlying message is that the
transition should go through because it's time for the U.S. to
give it up. This is all we have heard for several year now, what
we have not heard is how the model will in fact embrace end-users
and consumers. <br>
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In the article Crocker cites "Google, Verizon, AT&T, Cisco and
Yahoo" as backers of the plan. This is not a comfort to consumers
as these are some of the same companies which have been accused of
mis-handling consumer data and selling it to marketers. There is
also a list of mostly American institutions supporting the
transition. Little from the international community and nothing
from consumers. <br>
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What I want to hear from Crocker and ICANN is a real PLAN that
includes the end user. Right now we have a pantomime of consumer
input, our name is used in vain. <br>
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In your previous message you insisted that we should engage
directly with the board on this issue. If furture interactions
with the board are going to be like the last one, we're not going
anywhere. <br>
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-Garth<br>
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On 4/20/16 1:32 AM, Rinalia Abdul Rahim wrote:<br>
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<div>Rinalia</div>
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the Oversight of a Free and Open Internet </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Times">Stewardship
by
the global community will guard against ‘capture’ by
one group or
government.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16px"><b style="font-family:Times"><font>By Stephen D.
Crocker, </font></b><b style="font-family:Times"><font>April
19, 2016 6:31
p.m. ET</font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px">Today
the global Internet connects three billion of us.
While it has grown, the world
has shrunk. Geographic distance has become less
relevant as we can more easily
access information, communicate and reach new
customers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px">The
Internet has matured because it is free and open, led
by the private economy
and based on voluntary standards. It is built on the
principles that define
America: free enterprise and limited government.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Times">It
is those same ideals of privatization that frame a </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-stewardship-transition-package-10mar16-en.pdf" style="font-family:Times" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">proposal</span></a><span style="font-family:Times"> recently sent to the
National
Telecommunications and Information Administration
that would transition
stewardship of some key Internet technical functions
away from the U.S. to a
diverse and accountable global Internet community.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px">Why
is such a transition needed? Since the Internet’s
inception, the U.S. Commerce
Department and the California nonprofit corporation
that I head, the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, have been
in charge of coordinating
the global assignment of Internet addresses and domain
names. In 2014 the U.S.
government decided a more international stewardship
was appropriate. Since
then, the global Internet community has been working
on a proposal that assures
that such a transition will not threaten the openness
and freedom of the
Internet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px">First
and foremost, this proposal guards against “capture”
by any one group or
government. This is the primary reason the Internet
community—along with
businesses, civil society and other interest
groups—has given its blessing to
the changes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Times">On
March 17, representatives from the </span><a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/INTC" style="font-family:Times" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Intel</span></a><a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/INTC" style="font-family:Times" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue"> </span></a><span style="font-family:Times">Corporation, the Internet
Society and others
told Congress they supported the transition. The
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the
U.S. Council for International Business, the
Information Technology Industry
Council, the Software & Information Industry
Association and others also
approve of the plan.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Times">Business
leaders from companies like Google, </span><a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/VZ" style="font-family:Times" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Verizon</span></a><span style="font-family:Times">,</span><a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/VZ" style="font-family:Times" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue"> </span></a><a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/T" style="font-family:Times" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">AT&T</span></a><span style="font-family:Times">,</span><a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/T" style="font-family:Times" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue"> </span></a><a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/CSCO" style="font-family:Times" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Cisco</span></a><a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/CSCO" style="font-family:Times" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue"> </span></a><span style="font-family:Times">and </span><a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/YHOO" style="font-family:Times" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Yahoo</span></a><a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/YHOO" style="font-family:Times" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue"> </span></a><span style="font-family:Times">participated in the
development of the proposal.
Academics from Harvard, George Mason University and
other institutions also
weighed in. From the International Chamber of
Commerce to the Center for
Democracy and Technology, diverse organizations have
voiced support.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px">These
groups understand the vital role of the Internet in
strengthening the global
economy by creating jobs and economic growth. Almost
$8 trillion of commerce
takes place on the Internet annually, an example of
how dependent the world
economy has become on a single, unified network.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px">But
there are no guarantees about the Internet’s future.
In fact, the transition proposal
came from the understanding that maintaining the
status quo would risk the
single, free and open Internet that we cherish.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px">If
the U.S. does not transition its stewardship role to
the global Internet
community, then other governments may try to move
control to organizations like
the United Nations. There is also a risk that some
governments may form their
own national or regional networks. This disruptive
splintering would damage the
economy and weaken personal Internet use.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px">This
potential threat to the Internet was understood as far
back as 1997, when the
U.S. formalized its largely symbolic role as steward
of some of the Internet’s
technical functions. It intended to move away from
this role once Icann was
mature enough to operate without the U.S. as a
backstop.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px">In
March 2014, the National Telecommunications and
Information Administration
announced that it wanted to begin the process of
severing its contract with
Icann. The government stipulated that Icann remain an
incorporated U.S.
nonprofit entity and would need to be strongly
accountable to diverse
stakeholders with an interest in the Internet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px">Over
the past two years, myriad interests and participants
in the global Internet
community worked tirelessly to meet that challenge.
Hundreds of stakeholders
undertook an amazing effort that logged more than 400
meetings and calls, some
32,000 mailing list exchanges and hundreds of working
hours to devise a
transition proposal. A plan describing how the
transition always envisioned
could be implemented has now been delivered to the
Commerce Department.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px">The
proposal reinforces the private economy-led model that
has allowed policy to
keep pace with the Internet’s growth. What could be
more American than a world
that has a free and open Internet, in which all
stakeholders have a voice in
its governance and no one interest has a controlling
say?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px">A
successful stewardship transition will allow online
innovation and productivity
to continue to thrive. What’s more, it will be a
validation of the approaches
to other pressing transnational issues such as
privacy, online content,
interconnection fees, taxation and cybersecurity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px">This
transition, maintaining the global Internet’s role as
an incubator for
innovation and a stimulator of domestic and
international economic growth,
merits broad support. We owe it to future generations
to assure that the
Internet of tomorrow is as free, open and resilient as
the Internet of today.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px">Mr.
Crocker is the chairman of the board of the Internet
Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers.</span></i></p>
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