The ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum (WTPF) will discuss the...
The ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum (WTPF) will discuss the “multi-stakeholder model” of Internet governance and “global principles for the governance and use of the Internet.” WTPF will also explore collaboration between ITU and Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and…
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Numbers (ICANN), the regional Internet registries, Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet Society, and World Wide Web Consortium, said the ITU secretary general in a draft report for the May 14-16 meeting. One view is that the ICANN Governmental Advisory Group (GAC) “is limited by its role as an advisory body only,” the draft said. Some have noted that further integrating the GAC into multistakeholder policy development has several obstacles, including misunderstandings about the GAC as an organization of “nation state representatives,” the report said. It cited a U.K. submission to an WTPF preparatory meeting last year. Another view is that broadening the exchanges between the GAC, the ICANN board and other members of the ICANN community could overcome these misunderstandings, the report said, citing a U.S. submission to the meeting last year. There are some occasions where the ICANN board hasn’t requested GAC’s opinions or it has rejected the group’s advice, despite public policy implications of the issues under discussion, the report said, citing a document from the GAC. The secretary-general’s report aims to provide a “basis for discussion,” by incorporating the submissions of ITU government and business members, and serving “as the sole working document for the forum focusing on key issues on which it would be desirable to reach conclusions,” it said. Jan. 31 is the deadline for comments in the U.S. review.