[kictanet] ICANN Reforms

[Kivuva]

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

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Mwendwa Kivuva
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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
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> 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
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> 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?
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> 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.
>
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> 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:
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> ◦
> 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.
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> University of Nairobi
> Business School, Lower Kabete Campus
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