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Abstract

ICANN has been created to provide a global infrastructure to manage worldwide Internet resources like domain names, IP addresses and Internet parameters. To be really “global”, ICANN needs to provide a framework where all stakeholders worldwide can interact on equal footing, without cultural, geopolitical, gender, or other barriers to participation.Moreover, ICANN needs to be accountable to the global Internet community: the globalization of ICANN is strictly linked to the ability of the multi-stakeholders to set checks and balances to verify that ICANN is really independent from local constraining factors limiting the global equal access to the process.

Questions

  1. Inclusion and diversity: Are there barriers to participation that limit or hinder participation based on cultural, geopolitical, economical, linguistic, gender, or other differences? If so, how do we address them?
  2. Equal global multistakeholder model: Are there any stakeholder groups that are less represented, or have a lesser voice in the Policy Development Process? If so, how do we put in place mechanism to foster equal participation? What are the mechanisms to ensure that the Policy Development Process receives global input and addresses the needs and expectations of all stakeholders?
  3. Constitutional & legal mechanisms: Are the Bylaws drafted in compliance with international law principles or are they orientated to a local, not global, jurisdiction? Are the draft agreements for contracted parties like, but not limited to, registries and registrars compliant with international law and in any case not in contrast with legal systems in jurisdictions other than the one where ICANN is incorporated? Are there mechanisms to allow contracted parties to comply with the local laws enforced in their jurisdiction?
  4. Accountability: Are the accountability mechanisms (to be addressed in a different thread) globally fair? Will all the different global stakeholder groups have the same power to enforce checks and balances on ICANN’s behavior?
  5. Operational matters: Is ICANN’s footprint global, covering the global Internet community on equal footing? Is communication privileging specific local communities (linguistically, geopolitically, or other) over the global multi-stakeholder community? Are users worldwide given the same opportunities to contact ICANN and to provide their opinion, advice, comment, or complaint? Is access to ICANN’s facilities (physical or online presence) equal to all stakeholders? Are ICANN operations sufficiently shielded from local jurisdiction, i.e. can ICANN survive a change of the political attitude in one or more countries without disruption of its operations worldwide?

 

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