Forwarded on behalf of Ron. ------ Forwarded Message From: "ron@sherwood.vi" <Ron@Sherwood.vi> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 07:52:03 -0800 To: Gabriella Schittek <gabriella.schittek@icann.org> Subject: Fw: [ALAC] NTIA - Lawrence Strickling comments on ICANN and other things Dear Gabi: Please forward this message the ccNSO Councilors for their information. It is an interesting message concerning Lawrence Strickling's comments on ICANN (and a link to his presentation to the Media Institute). Thanks, Ron ====================================================================== From: Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp> Date: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 3:12 AM To: alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: [ALAC] NTIA - Lawrence Strickling comments on ICANN and other things <http://www.ntia.doc.gov/presentations/2010/MediaInstitute_02242010.html> Speech by NTIA head Lawrence Strickling about new directions for U.S. Internet policy and issues NTIA will be working on. A lot of interesting comments, but ICANN related: "Internet Governance: In our role administering the Federal government's relationship with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), how do we ensure that ICANN serves the public interest and conducts its activities with the openness and transparency that the global Internet community demands? Last fall, NTIA and ICANN set forth a framework for technical coordination of the naming and numbering system and I am looking forward to soon participating in the first of the administrative reviews to ensure that these commitments are carried out in full." So he does expect to participate (I said on the last ALAC call I though not likely. Wrong...) So it will be high level, and may change the intensity of the work of the team (Strickling's not going to be joining calls every few weeks.) Commenting on the need for increased trust in the Internet, one of the examples given "If foreign governments do not trust the Internet governance systems, they will threaten to balkanize the Domain Name System which will jeopardize the worldwide reach of the Internet." Enhanced role for the GAC as suggested in the AoC? Adam _______________________________________________ ALAC mailing list ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org <mailto:ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org> http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org <http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org> At-Large Online: http://www.atlarge.icann.org <http://www.atlarge.icann.org> ALAC Working Wiki: http://st.icann.org/alac <http://st.icann.org/alac> ------ End of Forwarded Message