On Jul 13, 2016, at 8:46 AM, avri doria <avri@apc.org> wrote:
Hi,
I think I disagree. I think the understanding of ICANN's position on the global interest always depends on the bottom-up multistakeholder understanding of that public interest within the confines of its mission. I think that we can define a framework that helps us discover the public interest within the context of a particular issue and the mission. A set of principles, beyond those at the highest level, seem to be a holy grail that we can search for but that will continue to elude us.
Avri - I believe I agree with you as well. To elaborate, I believe that the proper functioning of the Internet is in the global public interest, and (re-scoping specifically to ICANN’s mission) I believe that the stable and secure operation of the Internet’s unique identifier systems is similarly in the global public interest. I am not adverse to a set of high-level principles which outline what constitutes the "stable and secure operation of the Internet’s unique identifier systems”, but the determination of the various tradeoffs required in the application of such principles to any specific issue should properly occur in the multistakeholder policy development process. /John Disclaimer: my views alone - caveat emptor