[NCUC-DISCUSS] [NCUC-EC] Replacement on Cross Community Working Group on Internet Governance

Mon Apr 11 05:00:50 CEST 2016

Sorry, Matt, I am not understanding your argument for the continuation of the CCWG-IG.

I reject categorically the idea that expertise about the broader Internet governance process is concentrated in this CCWG. I am deeply involved in and quite well informed about these broader processes, and am not on that CCWG.

I reject categorically the idea that we need this group to educate the ICANN community about IG. I find the general level of knowledge and discourse about IG within ICANN to be quite high, and the level of discourse on CCWG-IG sessions to be quite low. When I have attended its sessions, I have not been impressed. I have seen attendance at its sessions in ICANN meetings decline regularly, mainly because of a lot of pointless wrangling inside the group about who gets to be in the limelight and a rather self-selecting group, in which diverse views about the IG landscape are _not_ aired and controversies are avoided.

There are many ways for ICANN participants to be involved in, to speak about and to monitor broader IG processes. This CCWG is no longer one of them. It did a pretty good job of it 2-3 years ago, and its time has passed. Let’s go for a full refresh.

--MM

From: Matthew Shears [mailto:mshears at cdt.org]
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Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] [NCUC-EC] Replacement on Cross Community Working Group on Internet Governance

I am a firm believer that this CCWG should exist and it should do so for a very specific reason:

(comment from me on another list)  I would like to see a discussion of what this WG can do to help enlighten and inform and recommend how ICANN the organization involves itself in IG matters.  The value of this WG is its expertise and that expertise should help (at a minimum) ICANN in its approach, policies and other approaches  to IG generally.  This is the greatest (potential) added value of this WG to the organization and its community.

Matthew
On 4/8/2016 5:29 PM, Edward Morris wrote:

+1

Also, why not ask whether this CCWG-IG is needed any more at all?

--MM

From: Ncuc-discuss [mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org] On Behalf Of Rafik Dammak
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Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] [NCUC-EC] Replacement on Cross Community Working Group on Internet Governance

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the message and explaining about the  role of  CCWG-IG.
I am grateful for your activities within the working group and continuous participation there.
we will discuss within NCUC Executive Committee about the process to follow here and getting back to NCUC list in timely manner

Best.

Rafik

2016-04-08 19:22 GMT+09:00 William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch<mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch>>:
Hello

As many here will recall, the Cross Community Working Group on Internet Governance was formed in December 2013 after the Buenos Aires meeting as a vehicle to provide a written input into the NETmundial meeting in Sao Paulo in April 2014; and to serve as a focal point for community members interested in ICANN’s role in the larger Internet governance ecosystem.  As things have evolved subsequently, its main activities have been to a) communicate with staff on its representations of ICANN in international meetings, e.g. in the UN; and b) plan the public Internet governance sessions held at each ICANN meeting.

When the CCWIG was chartered, I became one of NCUC’s representatives, https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=43984275

William Drake

GNSO - NCSG

Participant 1

Pranesh Prakash

GNSO - NCUC

Participant 2

Marilia Maciel

GNSO - NCUC

Participant 3

Stephanie Perrin

GNSO - NCUC

Participant 4

It having been a couple years now, I would think our representation in this group may be ready for a refresh.  I therefore would like to step aside from this role at NCUC’s earliest convenience.  I assume the NCUC Exec Comm. will organize the process to select a replacement.

Thanks

Bill

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