CCWG-Accountability-WS2-NoticeofApproval
All, We are pleased to inform you that all the Chartering Organizations have approved the WS 2 recommendations by the end of ICANN 63. The text of the various approvals can be found in the attached document. Please note that the GAC approved all the recommendations with the exception of the Jurisdiction recommendations which it did not approve or reject. As such the Co-Chairs will be transmitting the WS2 recommendations to the ICANN Board for approval and implementation. We will post updates to this list as the process for approval by the Board and implementation by ICANN progress. Thank you again to everyone who contributed to this work over the past two years or so. It is a great accomplishment to be able to forward the proposals on to the ICANN board with the broad support of the chartering organizations. The CCWG-Accountability Co-Chairs Thomas, Jordan, Tijani sent by Bernard Turcotte ICANN Staff Support to the CCWG-Accountabilit WS2
On 30/10/18 12:06 AM, Bernard Turcotte wrote:
All,
We are pleased to inform you that all the Chartering Organizations have approved the WS 2 recommendations by the end of ICANN 63.
The text of the various approvals can be found in the attached document. Please note that the GAC approved all the recommendations with the exception of the Jurisdiction recommendations which it did not approve or reject.
One is glad that the world was was saved the ignominy of its governments formally accepting that it is fine that one country should keep ruling over a key global infrastructure. Also, good that the report itself notes that the group could not fully agree on what issues of jurisdiction were really to be covered by it, and that some of them need to be discussed and sorted out in the future. This is a very important conceptual and in-principle win for global democracy, and democratic rule of law -- if just a rearguard defensive action. The credit for it almost exclusively goes to the valiant and intelligent Brazilian diplomats involved in the process, whom I congratulate and thank heartily. Meanwhile, one does greatly regret that a once-in-decades chance to make ICANN truly globally democratic (as was in fact called for by NetMundial Conference) has been missed. As the global Internet is beginning to split in cold war like zones and shells (as alsoclaimed by no less that Eric Schmidt <https://www.businessinsider.in/Googles-ex-CEO-Eric-Schmidt-says-the-internet...>), lack of globally democratic IG structures will need to share their considerable responsibility for this dangerous slide. We could have done something here to try and make things better, but dominant interests prevailed once again. History will, unfortunately, look back on this process as a missed opportunity. parminder
As such the Co-Chairs will be transmitting the WS2 recommendations to the ICANN Board for approval and implementation.
We will post updates to this list as the process for approval by the Board and implementation by ICANN progress.
Thank you again to everyone who contributed to this work over the past two years or so. It is a great accomplishment to be able to forward the proposals on to the ICANN board with the broad support of the chartering organizations.
The CCWG-Accountability Co-Chairs
Thomas, Jordan, Tijani
sent by
Bernard Turcotte
ICANN Staff Support to the CCWG-Accountabilit WS2
_______________________________________________ Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community
As to what does the final report and decisions of the CCWG on jurisdiction related issues mean for the world, here is a hot-off-the press sample. Iran is being taken off global financial grid, just because one US President says so. https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1450521/swift-suspends-iran-banks and hear the threat "I promise you that doing business with Iran in defiance of our sanctions will ultimately be a much more painful business decision than pulling out of Iran and being connected to Iran entirely," says the US Secretary of State ... https://www.firstpost.com/business/us-warns-of-severe-swift-penalties-for-fi... Simply bec though democrats under Obama were fine with getting along with Iran, the new President Trump is not, and so it is not even a bi-partisan US decision, but then Iran is to be suffocated by de-linking it from global financial grids. The question for the IG-ians is: Why cant or wont the US do the same for the Internet, its DNS and routing systems? That isnt much more drastic than throwing a country off global financial grids . US, as any country in its position would perhaps do in self interest, is just being nice on IG and digital issues becuase this is an advance area where global structures and advantages are being built and it does not want to rock the boat at this formative stage till its dominance and controls are unassailable. ] Once things settle down, you'd find similar threats and sanctions with regard to DNS and routing systems of the Internet -- to which problematic future situation this group has now contributed -- and is indeed clapping and celebrating it.. ( But perhaps someone here can explain why it wont happen with the Internet. ) Would those who have assiduously promoted and curated the US centred and controlled global IG model, and now have proudly concluded that there is no need to do anything about the jurisdictional controls under which some key infrastructural aspects of the global Internet operates, explain? If indeed they think they owe any explanation to anyone at all. That would be accountability, given that this is CCWG - Accountability. parminder On 30/10/18 10:18 AM, parminder wrote:
On 30/10/18 12:06 AM, Bernard Turcotte wrote:
All,
We are pleased to inform you that all the Chartering Organizations have approved the WS 2 recommendations by the end of ICANN 63.
The text of the various approvals can be found in the attached document. Please note that the GAC approved all the recommendations with the exception of the Jurisdiction recommendations which it did not approve or reject.
One is glad that the world was was saved the ignominy of its governments formally accepting that it is fine that one country should keep ruling over a key global infrastructure. Also, good that the report itself notes that the group could not fully agree on what issues of jurisdiction were really to be covered by it, and that some of them need to be discussed and sorted out in the future.
This is a very important conceptual and in-principle win for global democracy, and democratic rule of law -- if just a rearguard defensive action. The credit for it almost exclusively goes to the valiant and intelligent Brazilian diplomats involved in the process, whom I congratulate and thank heartily.
Meanwhile, one does greatly regret that a once-in-decades chance to make ICANN truly globally democratic (as was in fact called for by NetMundial Conference) has been missed. As the global Internet is beginning to split in cold war like zones and shells (as alsoclaimed by no less that Eric Schmidt <https://www.businessinsider.in/Googles-ex-CEO-Eric-Schmidt-says-the-internet...>), lack of globally democratic IG structures will need to share their considerable responsibility for this dangerous slide. We could have done something here to try and make things better, but dominant interests prevailed once again. History will, unfortunately, look back on this process as a missed opportunity.
parminder
As such the Co-Chairs will be transmitting the WS2 recommendations to the ICANN Board for approval and implementation.
We will post updates to this list as the process for approval by the Board and implementation by ICANN progress.
Thank you again to everyone who contributed to this work over the past two years or so. It is a great accomplishment to be able to forward the proposals on to the ICANN board with the broad support of the chartering organizations.
The CCWG-Accountability Co-Chairs
Thomas, Jordan, Tijani
sent by
Bernard Turcotte
ICANN Staff Support to the CCWG-Accountabilit WS2
_______________________________________________ Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community
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