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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:57:12 -0500<br>From: joly@PUNKCAST.COM<br>Subject: Internet Society Statement on the NETmundial Initiative<br>To: NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="ecxgmail_quote">For some background on this read <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/07/internet_un_security_council_net_mundial_initiative/" target="_blank">Kieren McCarthy</a> and <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20141007_beyond_netmundial_initiative_or_inertia/" target="_blank">Philip Corwin</a>.<br><br><br><u></u><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#666666;text-align:center;padding:0px;background:#dddddd;"><table style="width:100%;background:#dddddd;" bgcolor="#DDDDDD" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><span style="display:none !important;"> joly posted: " Yesterday, November 16 2014. following it's meeting in Honolulu, the Internet Society's Board of Trustees issued the following statement: Recently, the “I* Group” different from the one-time NETmundial meeting in which we participated in April 2014; we e" </span><table style="width:100%;padding:10px;" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;overflow:hidden;"><table style="width:100%;text-align:left;min-width:320px;background-color:#ffffff;" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%;height:8px;background-color:#43a4d0;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><br><table style="width:100%;" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><div style="direction:ltr;"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2;" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/isoc.png" target="_blank"><img style="clear:both;padding:4px;border:1px solid #cccccc;background-color:white;" src="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/isoc.png" alt="Internet Society" border="0"></a> Yesterday, November 16 2014. following its<a href="http://internetsociety.org/board-meeting-agenda-no-117" target="_blank"> meeting</a> in Honolulu, the Internet Society's Board of Trustees issued the following <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2;" href="http://internetsociety.org/news/internet-society-statement-netmundial-initiative" target="_blank">statement</a>:</p><blockquote style="font-family:Times,serif;font-size:1.1em;font-style:italic;color:#878787;border-left-width:3px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:#cccccc;padding-left:1em;"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Recently, the “I* Group” <span class="ecxyw-madlib">[1]</span> was invited to participate in the NETmundial Initiative, which is different from the one-time NETmundial meeting in which we participated in April 2014; we endorsed the outcomes of that meeting. This new and different NETmundial Initiative has been organized by the partnership of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and the World Economic Forum (WEF)<span class="ecxyw-madlib">[2]</span>. This announcement has resulted in considerable discussion and concern amongst various stakeholders regarding the purpose, scope, and nature of the proposed activity or organization.</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">The Internet Society Board discussed this proposed NETmundial Initiative in depth during its meeting November 15 – 16, 2014. As a result, the Internet Society Board first emphasizes that the main priority facing the Internet community right now is the IANA Functions’ Stewardship Transition and recommends that all organizations in the Internet community should be highly focused on effectuating a successful transition. The Internet Society remains fully committed to the September 2015 milestone set for completing a plan that will meet the criteria set by U.S. National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA).</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">With respect to the need for new groups, such as the NETmundial Initiative and its Coordination Council, the Internet Society Board reiterates that the Internet Society’s longstanding position is that there is no single, global platform that can serve to coordinate, organize or govern all the Internet issues that may arise. At its heart, the Internet is a decentralized, loosely coupled, distributed system that allows policies to be defined by those who require them for their operations and that ensures that issues can be resolved at a level closest to their origin. The ecosystem draws its strength from the involvement of a broad range of actors working through open, transparent, and collaborative processes to innovate and build the network of networks that is the cornerstone of the global economy.<span class="ecxyw-madlib">[3]</span> Based on the information that we have to date, the Internet Society cannot agree to participate in or endorse the Coordination Council for the NETmundial Initiative. We are concerned that the way in which the NETmundial Initiative is being formed does not appear to be consistent with the Internet Society’s longstanding principles, including:</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">• Bottom-up orientation<br> • Decentralized<br> • Open<br> • Transparent<br> • Accountable<br> • Multi-stakeholder</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">The Board has asked the Internet Society’s CEO, Kathryn Brown, to convene a dialogue within the Internet Society community. This includes Internet Society Chapters from around the world, Internet Society organization members, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), partners from the Internet technical community, and others. The dialogue should consider whether any new initiatives or groups are needed at the current time and, if so, to define the objectives for any such effort.</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">In addition, Bob Hinden, Chairman of the Internet Society Board of Trustees has initiated a dialogue with the Chairman of the ICANN Board, given ICANN’s leading involvement in the NETmundial Initiative.</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">The Internet Society remains committed to a vision of the Internet that is open, inclusive, decentralized and for the benefit of all people throughout the world.</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Notes:<br><span class="ecxyw-madlib">[1]</span> The I* Group encompasses the Internet Society, IETF, IAB, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), ICANN, and the regional Top Level Domain (TLD) organizations.<br> <span class="ecxyw-madlib">[2]</span> <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2;" href="https://www.netmundial.org/press-release-1" target="_blank">https://www.netmundial.org/press-release-1</a><br> <span class="ecxyw-madlib">[3]</span> The Internet Society’s position from the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) of 2003 and 2005, is “Many issues cannot be solved by new, overarching structures at a global level but rather by building on today’s open, multi-stakeholder and cooperative processes.” And that the community should “...consider whether new structures will bring truly measurable, positive change to the functioning, stability, security and openness of the Internet.” (<a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2;" href="http://www.internetsociety.org/wsis" target="_blank">http://www.internetsociety.org/wsis</a>).</p></blockquote></div><p style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.4em;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#666666;padding:1em 0px 0em;width:auto;"> </p><table style="width:auto;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:10px;"><a style="border-top-left-radius:10em;border-top-right-radius:10em;border-bottom-right-radius:10em;border-bottom-left-radius:10em;border:1px solid #11729e;text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;padding:5px 15px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;white-space:nowrap;background-color:#2585b2;" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7205#respond" target="_blank">Comment</a></td><td> <a style="color:#2585b2;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7205#comments" target="_blank">See all comments</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <BR></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;text-align:left;border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:#dddddd;background-color:#efefef;" bgcolor="#efefef" border="0" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:#f3f3f3;color:#888888;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background:#efefef;"><p style="direction:ltr;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;"> </p><p style="direction:ltr;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;"><strong>Permalink</strong><br> <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2;" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7205" target="_blank">http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7205</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;height:3px;background-color:#43a4d0;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><img src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=jetpack.wordpress.com&blog=10787942&post=7205&subd=isoc-ny.org&ref=&email=1&email_o=jetpack" alt="" border="0" height="1" width="1"></div></div><div><br><br></div><div> </div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="ecxgmail_signature">---------------------------------------------------------------<br><span>Joly MacFie <span id="ecxgc-number-68" class="ecxgc-cs-link" title="Call with Google Voice">218 565 9365</span> Skype:punkcast</span><br>WWWhatsup NYC - <a href="http://wwwhatsup.com" target="_blank">http://wwwhatsup.com</a><br> <a href="http://pinstand.com" target="_blank">http://pinstand.com</a> - <a href="http://punkcast.com" target="_blank">http://punkcast.com</a><br> VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - <a href="http://isoc-ny.org" target="_blank">http://isoc-ny.org</a><br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>-</div>
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