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

[Carlton Samuels]

A really good use of an hour indeed!

Alan, thanks for yet again exhibiting your superior skill; researching! You
and Dev....always on my team.

Carlton

On May 13, 2017 2:29 PM, "Alan Greenberg" <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> wrote:

> 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/*
> <https://participate.icann.org/p8yx7xiby7i/?OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=5bc0ea4e3ccd35164744c09ed4e716ecfaad25394a3bd46078d72451931fe3cf>
> .
>
> 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 <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
> Em: evan at telly dot org
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