[NCUC-DISCUSS] IGF Main Session on IANA and ICANN Accountability

[William Drake]

Hello

One of my little projects as a member of the IGF MAG has been to try to get the planning of a few key main sessions to be opened up to more diverse viewpoints and to include civil society speakers.  But sometimes it is hard when dealing with particularly dedicated first movers who take over the planning of a session and have a different vision.  So, for ex, the session on IANA and ICANN Accountability http://sched.co/1qe8LSK has two panels that are packed to the gills with technical community people and only one civil society person, Avri, on accountability.  I did manage to get developing country govt people onto both and Matt as moderator for one, but still there’s no CS on the IANA panel; I suggested Milton but no uptake.  Hence the line-up at present is

Chair [TBD by Host Country]
 
Moderators
For Panel No 1 on IANA stewardship: TBC
For Panel No 2 on ICANN accountability: Matthew Shears (Center for Democracy and Technology).
 
Panelists
 
Panelists for the NTIA transition:
	• Byron Holland, President and CEO, Canadian Internet Registration Authority, Chair, ccNSO. Confirmed
	• Nii Quaynor, University of Cape-Coast, Ghana.  Confirmed
	• Narelle Clark, ISOC. Confirmed
	• Joseph Alhadeff, Chair of the ICC Commission on the Digital Economy. Waiting for confirmation
	• Manal Ismail, National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency of Egypt.  Confirmed
 
Panelists for ICANN’s accountability process:
	• Avri Doria, Consultant and researcher. Confirmed
	• Benedicto Fonseca, Itamaraty, Brazil. Confirmed
	• Paul Wilson, APNIC. Confirmed
	• Theresa Swinehart, ICANN. Confirmed
	• Towela Nyirenda-Jere. NEPAD. Confirmed
 
Remote  moderator:
Susan Chalmers, Consultant.
 
Should anyone feel enticed to join or at least follow the discussion, the list is at http://mail.intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/iana2014_intgovforum.org

Also, one of the (CS friendly) lead organizers has just suggested an open call for discussion questions, see below.  Anyone care to provide some input?

Best

Bill


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Susan Chalmers <susan at susanchalmers.com>
> Subject: [Iana2014] Call for questions
> Date: August 7, 2014 at 11:20:07 PM GMT+2
> To: "iana2014 at intgovforum.org" <iana2014 at intgovforum.org>
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> The session description lists eight questions relating to the transition of IANA stewardship and ICANN accountability, the topics addressed by panels 1 and 2 during this session, respectively. 
> 
> I think that it would be good if we put out a call to the Internet community soliciting more questions on these two topics.
> 
> Could those on the list kindly circulate this request within their networks?
> 
> We can collect the questions here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VZ5mnWfp5YTqQ174xn80BSaSUwAgVvffBxktg3X0d9k/edit?usp=sharing 
> 
> The questions should be with the moderators soon, so I'd suggest that people send them by Monday, August 11th.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Susan
> 
> 
> Susan Chalmers
> Consultant, Internet Policy
> 
> +1 269 290 2097
> www.susanchalmers.com
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