[At-Large] Auction Proceeds - where we are and what you can help

[Alan Greenberg]

I doubt that the CCWG will create a specific 
carve-out for IGF funding at this stage, And I 
would hope it will not prohibit such applications.

To what extent funding either the global or 
regional IGFs is within ICANN's mission and scope 
is something that has already and I presume will continue to be debated.

For those who have an interest in the subject and 
have not already done so, I found that listening 
to the Board session on the ICANN support and 
funding of IGFs at the recent Board Workshop was 
really good use of an hour - 
<https://participate.icann.org/p8yx7xiby7i/?OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=5bc0ea4e3ccd35164744c09ed4e716ecfaad25394a3bd46078d72451931fe3cf>https://participate.icann.org/p8yx7xiby7i/.

Alan

At 12/05/2017 06:59 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

>​Oh and before anyone replies on procedure:
>
>I am fully aware that this stage of the WG is 
>dealing with broad criteria and not specific recipients.​
>
>But in the world of Internet Governance, the IGF 
>is in a category of its own and IMO it is 
>reasonable to discuss its inclusion at a structural level at this point.
>
>On 12 May 2017 at 18:55, Evan Leibovitch 
><<mailto:evan at telly.org>evan at telly.org> wrote:
>I'm not sure that there's really a disagreement between Ken and John.
>
>Informing the world of the function of the DNS 
>-- and of ICANN's crucial role in that piece of 
>infrastructure -- is both within scope and of 
>high value. There are ways that this can be 
>deployed in ways that don't constitute vanity and self-aggrandizing.
>
>---
>
>Personally I'm a little surprised and 
>disappointed by the fact nobody in this list, 
>especially my civil society colleagues, are 
>advocating use of auction proceeds to seed an 
>ongoing endowment for the IGF. There are many 
>important parts of Internet governance, but 
>ICANN is the only one of them that attracts so 
>much money and speculative/entrepreneurial 
>behavior. ICANN could almost overnight render 
>itself one of the global heroes of the Internet 
>ecosystem if it provided ongoing support of 
>other related bits such that the IGF could maintain vitality and independence.
>
>Furthermore, it is in ICANN's selfish best 
>interest to promote multi-stakeholderism 
>throughout the universe of IG. If government 
>multilateral activity can successfully encroach 
>on the ecosystem due to weakness/failure of the 
>IGF, then ICANN will surely be a target next.
>
>Just a thought. If ALAC got behind this and the 
>idea gained broad support, ICANN will find a way 
>to define such action to be within scope.
>
>(Disclosure: I have never even attended an IGF, 
>so I am hardly acting in a self-serving manner 
>in proposing this endowment. One doesn't have to 
>be in the IGF to see its value.)
>
>- Evan
>
>
>
>
>--
>Evan Leibovitch
>Toronto, Canada
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