[kictanet] ICANN Reforms

Sat Oct 19 01:36:30 EAT 2013

Nice one Bitange,

Congrats and good work going on more feed backs expected

Regards

On 18 October 2013 22:25, Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:

> Congrats on being included in the Multi-stakeholder Innovation panel. This
> is a great initiative by ICANN, we will strive to give feedback as the
> community.
>
> Regards
>
> ______________________
> Mwendwa Kivuva
> twitter.com/lordmwesh
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>
>
> On 18 October 2013 20:39, Bitange Ndemo <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:
>
>> Envisioning a 21st Century Organization to Coordinate the Internet
>> Addressing System: A Shared, Global Public Resource
>>
>>
>>
>> Last week the seven, international members of the ICANN Strategy Panel on
>> Multistakeholder Innovation convened online. The panel includes:
>> Chair:  Beth Simone Noveck Panelists: Allison Gilwald, Joi Ito, Karim
>> Lakhani, Guo Liang, Geoff Mulgan, Bitange Ndemo GovLab Support Team:
>> Stefaan Verhulst, Jillian Raines, Antony Declercq
>>
>>
>> The Multistakeholder Innovation Panel is an external advisory group formed
>> to bring fresh insights and outside perspective to ICANN’s ongoing process
>> of planning its own evolution.
>>
>> It has been almost 15 years since the creation of ICANN in 1998. At that
>> time,  ICANN was perceived as an experiment in translating the principles
>> of participatory democracy – or what is known in Internet governance
>> parlance as “multi-stakeholderism” – into practice. Since then the
>> Internet’s usage has exploded and the process of managing the unique
>> identifier system that enables communications to flow seamlessly across a
>> unified, global Internet is facing numerous challenges. At the same time,
>> innovations in governance from big and open data, open innovation, open
>> contracting, open peer review, crowdsourcing to expert discovery allowing
>> for more participatory, open, and transparent processes of governance have
>> emerged.
>>
>> The Innovation Panel supported by the GovLab is working to make
>> recommendations to the ICANN Community for how to evolve the ways ICANN
>> manages and coordinates the domain name space.  Starting with the
>> principles of multi-stakeholder governance – including transparency,
>> accountability, accessibility and inclusiveness – the goal of the panel is
>> to address new ways to realize this vision more effectively. “The aim of
>> the panel isn’t to tackle global issues of Internet governance but to
>> articulate what a 21st century ICANN, whose functions are quite narrow,
>> could look like and how it could operate given the innovations in
>> governance happening across the world,” added Panel Chair Prof. Beth
>> Simone Noveck.
>>
>> During the call, members discussed how to capture the principles,
>> platforms, practices and strategies for opening up ICANN and how to make
>> its processes more effective and more legitimate at each stage of a
>> policymaking process from issue-identification to agenda setting to
>> solution-development and implementation to evaluation and review.
>>
>> Members agreed that the seven of them alone do not possess all the wisdom,
>> know-how and insights necessary but, rather, their highest and best role
>> is in stewarding a broader conversation around the question: what might it
>> mean to manage and coordinate a shared, global public resource in the 21st
>> century?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> To that end, the Panel wants input as it starts to map:
>> •
>> The technologies and platforms that exist for identifying know-how and
>> enabling participatory decision-making across stakeholders.
>>
>> •
>> The best models for leveraging collective intelligence, open innovation
>> and open data around the world – that could be applied to the ICANN
>> processes;
>>
>> •
>> The variables that are important to consider when designing innovative
>> ways to manage and coordinate – using new technologies.
>>
>>
>>
>> To help frame the discussion, members also discussed three current topics
>> on which ICANN is working. The goal being to help frame how to experiment
>> around participatory decision-making on these issues:
>>
>> •
>> Next-Generation Registry Directory Services/“Thick” Whois:
>>
>> ◦
>> The NextGen Registry Directory Services is a proposed successor for
>> today’s Whois database (a publicly searchable repository of data on domain
>> name registrations). This proposed new system would collect, validate and
>> disclose generic top-level domain (gTLD) registration data for
>> permissible purposes only, with some data elements accessible only to
>> authenticated requestors.
>>
>> •
>> Name Collisions:
>>
>> ◦
>> During implementation of ICANN’s decision to open up and allow for new
>> generic top-level domains (gTLDs), the likelihood that name space
>> collisions between existing gTLD strings, applied for new gTLD strings,
>> and non-delegated TLDs became apparent. Specifically, local top level
>> domains used internally by private enterprises may potentially conflict
>> with names yet to be allocated.
>>
>> •
>> Internationalized Domain Name Variants:
>> ◦
>> Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) use character sets such as Chinese,
>> Arabic, Cyrillic or other non-Latin characters. An IDN variant TLD can be
>> defined as one that may look like or be considered exchangeable with
>> another TLD by a user of the related writing system. For example, a string
>> in traditional Chinese characters commonly has an equivalent string in
>> simplified Chinese characters. The issues that need to be resolved around
>> supporting IDN variants in the root zone include how to avoid “visual
>> confusion” and how to construct a “lookup table” in the root so that all
>> variant queries are properly directed.
>>
>> We’ll soon be launching an online platform to gather input and ideas and
>> reach out widely to the global audience focused on innovations in
>> governance.  In the meantime, I am requesting you to give us your input on
>> what type of multistakeholder arrangements you want to see ICANN adopt.
>>
>>
>> Ndemo.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> University of Nairobi
>> Business School, Lower Kabete Campus
>>
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