[lac-discuss-en] Interview with ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey in San Francisco Chronicle newspaper

[carlos aguirre]

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> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:11:39 -0500
> From: carlton.samuels at uwimona.edu.jm
> To: admin at ttcsweb.org
> CC: lac-discuss-en at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> Subject: Re: [lac-discuss-en] Interview with ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey in San Francisco Chronicle newspaper
> 
> So Paul Twomey believes that for some years ICANN was seen as a proxy for US
> foreign policy in some parts of the world. What if I tell you I will give
> you even odds he excluded the European part of the world from this
> assessment?
> 
> According to him, the views regarding a G12 for ICANN oversight as expressed
> by Madame Reding was "personal'. The feedback from the Brussels meeting
> took a similar explanatory line; purely one view "for discussion" and
> entirely "personal". I hope Dr. Twomey's objective was to remain "on
> message". Because if he genuinely believes this, I have a bridge to sell
> him. Barely used, been in the family for at least a century and going for a
> knock-down price!
> 
> Call me a skeptic. For one, this is not the way it works in any serious
> organization with foreign policy remit and with an official at that level.
> Yes, the most simple explanation - an over zealous officer who misspoke - is
> indeed attractive if you don't want to think. But what we have here on
> display is called "plausible deniability" in statecraft. Madame was not off
> on a frolic of her own but was fronting a position that was deliberately
> floated into the public domain, more than likely with the tacit approval of
> the Commission and the EU.
> 
> What was said defines the tension of the "other side" regarding the post-JPA
> future. Allow me to position the view conservative of the existing order.
> 
> There are Americans who genuinely believe that the Internet is an American
> thing, property of the United States of America. Some are politicians with
> influence. And no, they are not the ones you usually associate with this
> subject like the congressman from Massachussetts, Edward Markey. These
> others come from places that most of you have never heard of, places where
> there are more cattle than people as constituents. But they have real power
> to place anything in DC on "hold".
> 
> As an old Washington DC hand, I can tell you that almost every government
> bureacrat fear being called to Capitol Hill to be grilled by some
> congressman willing to beat you up to show his constituents that he stands
> for the American people and the conservation of American property. Worse
> yet, you'd hate to be the recepient of his attention when you're going to be
> accused as being in favour of giving American property away to "furriners".
> That is one way.
> 
> By far the easiest thing to do is to declare any change a threat to the
> national security interests of the United States of America. Which,
> incidently, has already been floated in the policy development circles in
> the U.S. If that takes root, you can kiss an "independent" ICANN goodbye.
> 
> When you pull these strands together, it will lead you to where I am: the
> At-Large constituency in ICANN will have more influence on ICANN's future
> that they would care to admit. For now. Because we give ICANN - the
> organisation - cover from both extremes.
> 
> Carlton Samuels
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> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh
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