[NCUC-DISCUSS] Meeting with ICANN CEO

Fri Feb 10 18:47:30 CET 2017

Hi, Norbert-

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I agree that more needs to be done to connect the unconnected, particularly in the global South. And I appreciate that definitions of Internet governance, and of the missions of the institutions which are involved in Internet governance topics, vary in scope. Both are continuously being explored and debated by us all. In my view, however, ICANN is not responsible for the rollout of broadband infrastructure.

It is my understanding that ICANN is primarily concerned with the running of the technical infrastructure of the Internet (things like the allocation of unique identifiers such as domain names), and for making sure the Domain Name System is there to support the physical infrastructure when it does come to more parts of the world. That said, the Internet Society does some great work trying to close the gap between the connected and the unconnected, and in positively encouraging external investment in these underlying infrastructural issues, so it might be worth investigating whether there is an ISOC chapter in your country, in case you are not already a member.

Best wishes,

Ayden Férdeline
[linkedin.com/in/ferdeline](http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline)

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Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Meeting with ICANN CEO
Local Time: 10 February 2017 5:26 PM
UTC Time: 10 February 2017 17:26
From: norbertglakpe at gmail.com
To: Stephanie Perrin <stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca>
william.drake at uzh.ch, ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org

Dear all,
I have few questions for the CEO of ICANN:
You recently said that the future of Internet is Africa.
Then I would want to recall that Africa actually has the lowest Internet penetration ratio.
We need broadband Internet in our schools to disseminate knowledge and improve the quality of the education.
We need affordable Internet for our companies, businesses, startups to enable innovation. We need braodband in our homes for so many raisons.
We need to get rural areas online to let Internet trigger the socio-economic development.
I would want to add that the future of Africa is Internet (and electricity).

So, Mr CEO, What is your plan, your strategy to accelerate broadband Internet Africa

Thanks,

Norbert Komlan GLAKPE

2017-02-08 2:16 GMT+00:00 Stephanie Perrin <stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca>:

I agree with the below. I think it is important to emphasize the positive nature of our contributions, not ask embarrassing or uncomfortable questions. Fine to point out difficult problems, as long as we can answer that key response question, "so what do you think we should do about it?"

cheers Stephanie

On 2017-02-07 04:32, matthew shears wrote:

Hi - inline

On 07/02/2017 10:19, William Drake wrote:

Hi

On Feb 6, 2017, at 21:18, Mueller, Milton L <milton at gatech.edu> wrote:

Farzaneh:

Your primary goal in this talk should be to make sure the new CEO understands who and what NCUC is, to solicit information from him about what attitudes (prejudices?) and perceptions he has about us, correcting any misperceptions he might have. So I would come up with some basic talking points about that. You need to make it clear why it is absolutely essential that the GNSO continue to be structured in a way that balances commercial and noncommercial and contracted and non-contracted parties, and why board and GAC interference with GNSO consensus policies after the fact is a bad thing.
+ 100

Agree. While I think he has some sense of what we’re about already, given prior discussions, it’d be good to lock it the desired framing. And to invite him to Constituency Day.

As a secondary priority, you might discuss the prohibition on content regulation and how we think the use of PICs might circumvent that.
Agree

You could emphasize our belief that in the new accountability arrangements, ACs such as ALAC were given too much power relative to the much larger and more diverse set of stakeholders in the GNSO, and how a ALAC/GAC alliance in certain bylaw disputes might thwart attempts to keep ICANN constrained within its mission.

Unless my memory is foggy this morning we were not in uniform agreement on these points, so if there’s time to get into them it maybe qualified them as “some members are concerned that..”.

Also, and while I largely agree with this, what is the point of bringing this up? Are we asking for some review of the Accountability mechanisms? Are we asking him to keep an eye on their possible collusion? If I were Goran I would say - and so what do you think should be done about this?

Agree with Bill's qualification.

Matthew

Best

Bill

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Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Meeting with ICANN CEO

Dear NCUC members,

I will have a 1:1 meeting with the ICANN CEO next week. If you would like me to discuss a topic with him, please share it on this list by 10 Feb. Since this is a 30 minute talk I cannot cover everything but I will try my best to at least mention some of the suggested topic briefly.

Best

Farzaneh
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