RE: [council] UN - ICT Task Force Working Group Document on ICANN

["Cade,Marilyn S - LGCRP" <mcade@att.com>]

Erick, 

thanks for bringing this document to the attention of Council. I am familiar with and follow the work of the UN - ICT
Task Force, wearing my broader hat in policy for my company, but hadn't examined this report previously.  

This proposal is indeed interesting and supports capacity building in participation of developing countries in ICANN.

Overall, even as we examine this, I offer one other thought to the Council.  I think it critically important to include in any discussion, and to advise the ICANN staff and board along these lines, that ICANN's best path to success is to focus, focus, focus, on 1) improving and building relationships with key stakeholders, such as the root servers, RIRs, and ccTLDS 2) focusing on key policy issues which are clearly in their scope, including completing the evaluation of the new gTLDs, determining a process for the introduction of any further gTLDs, completing and implementing policy work on Transfers, Deletions, and WHOIS, and multi-lingual domain names and 3)building the new board and staff and the global set of stakeholders into a coherent and well functioning and well understood organization. 

Co-existence with other related endeavors and events is important for ICANN's success, even as we all maintain a critical focus on implementing the reform which has been undertaken and ensuring the bottom up processes which we are all committed to. So, activities which support ICANN's core success and focus and strengthen the awareness and understanding of ICANN's functions are of interest to me to support. And will require some attention by all who support ICANN.  

I appreciate your sharing this with the Council.  

Marilyn

-----Original Message-----
From: Erick Iriarte Ahon [mailto:faia@amauta.rcp.net.pe]
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 2:02 PM
To: council
Subject: [council] UN - ICT Task Force Working Group Document on ICANN


Hi! :)

This document will be discussing between ICANN and the UN - ICT Task Force.

Some one have contact with the UN ICT representantive in each region ??

I think each constituency have something to say !!!

It suggests a three pronged strategy that would include:

-	The creation of a cross-constituency committee led by the UN-ICT 
Taskforce (in partnership with ICANN) that would provide a set of 
structural recommendation towards improved developing nations participation 
(as well as possibly manage a travel-fund);
-	Support by the UN-ICT Taskforce towards the creation of AfriNIC, an 
African regional registry, that would provide for increased technical 
capacity as well as more decision power within ICANN;
-	The creation of regional outreach centers or networks based upon the 
existence of the regional UN-ICT Taskforce networks;

Priorities:

"	Increasing awareness among developing-country stakeholders regarding the 
importance of ICANN for ICT policy making;
"	Strengthening the technical and policy-making capacity of 
developing-nation stakeholders within ICANN;
"	Providing easy and affordable access to timely information about key 
ICT-related issues on the agenda of ICANN;
"	Overcoming financial and other barriers impeding developing-country 
stakeholders from participating in ICANN;
"	Fostering multi-stakeholder engagement in the search for and 
implementation of solutions that enable inclusive DNS policymaking; and
"	Promoting equity enhancing mechanisms and the lowering of access barriers 
within ICANN.


Erick Iriarte Ahon
LatinoamerICANN Project
http://latinoamericann.derecho.org.ar