[Internal-cg] Combined proposal assessment - NC

[Lynn St.Amour]

Hi Narelle,

on the call today there was a brief discussion on the point you raise below.  As you were not on the call, and we were missing most of the CC reps. we said we would move the discussion to the mail list..

I stated (and I believe so did Joe, Jari and Manal) that I did not believe there was an incompatibility between the Names proposal  Handling of ccTLDs and the NTIA criteria that it "will not accept a proposal that replaces the NTIA role with a government-led or an inter-governmental organization solution".    

The WSIS Plan of Action is very broad, and one of the overarching principles (my words, not a formal or accepted description) is the sovereignty of each country.  In addition to the reference you and the CWG-Stewardship proposal quotes, there is also Paragraph 63 in the WSIS Tunis Agenda. "Countries should not be involved in decisions regarding another country’s country-code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD). Their legitimate interests, as expressed and defined by each country, in diverse ways, regarding decisions affecting their ccTLDs, need to be respected, upheld and addressed via a flexible and improved framework and mechanisms."

Further, many models are in place today to manage ccTLD's and many of those models have roles for governments.  The NTIA does not have authority over other ccTLD's today and therefore nothing to "replace" per se.

My .02, others should weigh in.

Narelle, let us know if this address your question.

Best,
Lynn



On Jul 14, 2015, at 11:14 PM, Narelle Clark <narelle.clark at accan.org.au> wrote:

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> C. Workability: Do the results of any tests or evaluations of workability that were included in the component proposals conflict with each other or raise possible concerns when considered in combination?
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> The Accountability mechanisms in the Names proposal are essentially undefined so therefore are untested.
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> NTIA Criteria Compliance
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> Handling of ccTLDs
> It is arguable that there is an assertion of government control implicit in a specific section of the names proposal and in particular as it relates to the ccTLDs: specifically via:
> "1.7: It is recalled that the WSIS Plan of action of December 2003 invites "Governments to manage or supervise, as appropriate, their respective country code top-level domain name". Any such involvement should be based on appropriate national laws and policies. It is recommended that governments should work with their local internet community in deciding on how to work with the ccTLD Registry."
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> Considering both of these together, one is led to wonder about whether this is a potential incompatibility with the NTIA criteria that it "will not accept a proposal that replaces the NTIA role with a government-led or an inter-governmental organization solution".
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> The NTIA seems to be more in line with RFC 1591 which asserts that:
> "The country code domains (for example, FR, NL, KR, US) are each organized by an administrator for that country.  These administrators may further delegate the management of portions of the naming tree.  These administrators are performing a public service on behalf of the Internet community."
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