[kictanet] [ISOC_KE] US SIGNALS A NEW ERA OF INTERNET GOVERNANCE IN ITS WILLINGNESS TO GIVE UP ICANN OVERSIGHT

[Barrack Otieno]

ISOC Kenya is an ALS McTim, it can achieve this.

Best Regards
On Mar 15, 2014 1:54 PM, "McTim" <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> HI Ali,
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>
>> Listers
>>
>> Apologies for cross-posting.
>>
>> As the US signals its willingness to give up oversight of the Internet to
>> a global multi-stakeholder constituent I can't seem to help but wonder
>> whether I should repeat the old adage:-
>>
>> 'Be careful what you wish for'.
>>
>> In the aftermath of Snowdenia it is not unreasonable for us to have had
>> the knee jerk reactions of the kind that erupted all over the world. Now
>> the Multi-stakeholder community must have sober discourse, which must
>> involve private sector for profit and do gooders, governments and the
>> citizenry of the world at large. Even when this discourse degenerates into
>> a Tower of Babel we must not loose sight of the ultimate goal:-
>>
>> A Free, Borderless Internet where information and commerce flows without
>> the overpowering big brother oversight that the likes of Russia, China,
>> Saudi Arabia and Iran seem to be advocating and which the US has been
>> stealthily practicing behind everyone's back.
>>
>> Can we rise up to the challenge?
>>
>>
>> http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303546204579439653103639452?mobile=y
>>
>> Countries like Kenya have the opportunity to take leadership in this new
>> dispensation.
>>
>
>
> I'm not so sure Countries as "nation states" do have that opportunity.
>  This is all about the transition to the Private Sector (now called
> Multi-Stakeholderism) that was envisioned nearly 20 years ago in the White
> and Green Papers.  In other words ICANN will be "floating free" of these
> USG ties.  We already have several activist Kenyans in ICANN circles,
> perhaps we could focus on more outreach to bring in more?
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
> indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>
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