Request for advice

[Adam Peake]

Milton, thanks.

Do you suggest NCUC members send in their part answers to the
questions?  Happy to... as far as I understand what the questions are
getting at!

Further comment inline below:


At 2:33 PM -0400 8/5/04, Milton Mueller wrote:
>Fwd: Template for ICANN Constituency/Stakeholder Input on WSIS
>
>Dear members:
>The message below was sent to the Chair and Council members
>of NCUC. It is asking us to provide "input" into a template
>that would then be used by ICANN's "WSIS Workshop
>Planning Group" and probably also by ICANN management
>to formulate some kind of common position to take into the
>WSIS process.
>
>The questions we are asked to fill out are in themselves
>rather harmless. However, I view the idea of ICANN as a
>whole "developing a bottom-up consensus to guide positions
>on Internet governance" with some concern and puzzlement.
>It would seem that our members, and the constituent parts of
>ICANN, can develop their own positions. Many of us are already
>deeply involved in the WSIS process anyway and don't
>need "guidance".
>
>However, I could be wrong about this, so I solicit the
>membership's advice.
>
>My recommendation is to fill out the questions with
>the relevant facts but add at the beginning a caveat
>stating that NCUC and its members reserve to themselves
>the ability to represent their own positions, either
>individually or collectively as a constituency, in the
>WSIS process.


All very well that members and/or the constituency might have a
position on WSIS (I haven't seen any discussion of our position),
what bothers me is that no one from the constituency is participating
in this "WSIS Workshop Planning Group".  All the business
constituencies and ALAC are there, and no NCUC.  This isn't good.

Could the constituency's executive committee please appoint someone
to this planning group.

Thanks,

Adam




>I am copying ALAC members on this. I will forward their
>replies to the list if they wish.
>
>--MM
>
>=====================================
>FROM:           WSIS Workshop Planning Group* <WSISWPG at icann.org>
>
>SUBJECT:        Template for CANN Constituency/Stakeholder Input on
>WSIS
>
>At the WSIS Workshop in Kuala Lumpur
>(<http://www.icann.org/meetings/kualalumpur/icann-wsis-workshop-01jul04.htm>
>), ICANN constituencies/stakeholder groups were invited to complete
>the
>template included below and return it to the WSIS Workshop Planning
>Group*.
>The Planning Group would greatly appreciate receiving a completed
>template
>from your group by 13 August 2004. Please email it to
>WSISWPG at icann.org.
>
>As discussed at the WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)
>Workshop
>in Kuala Lumpur, the template is being used to gather input from the
>ICANN
>community.  It is an initial step towards developing a bottom-up
>consensus
>to guide positions on Internet Governance, and to strengthen ICANN
>stakeholder awareness of WSIS and WSIS participants' understanding of
>ICANN.
>Submissions will be used to develop a statement with key themes about
>ICANN
>and Internet Governance, which can be used as input and guidance for
>the
>ICANN community and as a resource in working with other entities via
>the
>WSIS process.  The statement will be circulated for endorsement and
>consideration by ICANN Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees
>(as
>appropriate) and will be presented at the next WSIS Workshop at the
>Cape
>town ICANN meeting in December 2004.
>
>Thank you for your help with this effort.  Please contact us if you
>have any
>questions or need additional information.
>
>The WSIS Workshop Planning Group <WSISWPG at icann.org>:
>
>Vittorio Bertola, At-Large Advisory Committee
>Izumi Aizu, At-Large Advisory Committee
>Marilyn Cade, Business Constituency
>David Fares, BusinessConstituency/USCIB
>Tony Holmes, Internet Service & Connectivity Providers
>Elana Broitman, Registrars
>Jeff Neuman, Registries
>Peter Dengate Thrush, InternetNZ
>Theresa Swinehart, ICANN
>Denise Michel, ICANN
>
>----------------------------------------------
>
>TEMPLATE FOR ICANN CONSTITUENCY/STAKEHOLDER INPUT ON WSIS (*Please
>email to
><WSISWPG at icann.org> by 13 August 2004)
>
>1.  Name of Constituency/Stakeholder Group; description of group;
>contact
>information.
>
>2.  Role group plays regarding the Internet's system of unique
>identifiers
>and its stable and secure operation (what do you do?).
>
>3.  Explain how ICANN's activities/responsibilities effect what you
>do.
>
>4.  Explain why and how your group's members participate in ICANN (and
>give
>examples of some of the priority ICANN issues/activities in which your
>group's members are involved).
>
>5.  Activities outside of ICANN:  Describe the Internet-related
>issues/activities addressed by (or affecting) your group's members that
>are
>outside of ICANN's mandate? What are some of the other international
>and
>national fora in which your group's members are involved?
>
>6.  Internet governance:  Identify the other international or regional
>organizations your group's members work with, if any, on Internet
>governance
>discussions/issues [eg. ITU, WIPO, OECD, CITEL, APEC-TEL, IETF, etc.].
>Explain how your group  members have participated in WSIS.