Dear Councilors,

As promised on our council call, please see below for Carolina’s written report.

Regards,

Byron

 

Overview I* meeting

This was a two-day meeting with participants from ISOC, ICANN, IAB, IETF, AFNIC, APNIC, ARIN, RIPE NCC, W3C and LACTLD on behalf of the ccTLD Regional Organizations. (All in all there were 28 people, in most cases more than one representative per organization).

Although the meeting had a pre-established program sent by Kathy Brown, the agenda proved to be  more flexible to leave more time for discussion for: a) the future of Internet critical infrastructure without a contract with the USG and the role played by ICANN with respect to the other organizations – including protocols and numbers, not only names; b) the IANA functions as such.  Main objectives: a) achieve a consensus on Internet Governance principles; b) A proposal for an Internet Governance ecosystem

NET MUNDIAL

1.      1 March deadline to submit proposals along these two topics for Net Mundial.

2.       The CGI will contribute with most of the funding, for a meeting that is calculated to cost between 2 to 3 million dollars but is looking for sponsors to show the general effort and goodwill with this initiative. ICANN, ISOC will be sure contributors. What the organization committee will not fund nor organize is travel.  ISOC will look at some opportunities and Fadi explicity asked organizations to contribute towards the travel fund allocation at the I*. Since the management and eligibility criteria have not yet been defined, this remains an open issue.

3.       Another open issue is who well get invited and under what mechanisms and criteria. The proposed idea of the organizers (including the 3 committees: High Level, Executive and Logistics) will be to invite country delegations of 5 people. As mentioned before, all I* organizations including us will be invited for sure. There is a space limit due to venue constraints to 800-900 people and CISCO has already agreed to donate the facilities for remote participation, something that should also be encouraged.

4.       The Net Mundial committee is composed by 3 groups: High Level; Executive and Logistics. It also has 1 Chairman for the meeting, Virgilio Fernandes Almeida (representative of the Ministry of Science and Technology at the Brazilian CGI),  and 4 Co-chairs, each representing the 4 stakeholder groups (Technical, Civil Society, Business and Academia).http://netmundial.br/blog/2014/02/10/netmundial-welcome-board-members/
Governments are the fifth group - 12 governments will endorse the meeting from the five continents. Each panel has now a Chair and a Co-Chair. Fadi Chehadé is co-Chairing the technical stakeholder group (This structure is in the NetMundial website).

 

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