I agree with your recommendation Milton.

Valerie

- Original Message -----
From: "Milton Mueller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:33 AM
Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Request for advice


> Fwd: Template for ICANN Constituency/Stakeholder Input on WSIS
>
> Dear members:
> The message below was sent to the Chair and Council members
> of NCUC. It is asking us to provide "input" into a template
> that would then be used by ICANN's "WSIS Workshop
> Planning Group" and probably also by ICANN management
> to formulate some kind of common position to take into the
> WSIS process.
>
> The questions we are asked to fill out are in themselves
> rather harmless. However, I view the idea of ICANN as a
> whole "developing a bottom-up consensus to guide positions
> on Internet governance" with some concern and puzzlement.
> It would seem that our members, and the constituent parts of
> ICANN, can develop their own positions. Many of us are already
> deeply involved in the WSIS process anyway and don't
> need "guidance".
>
> However, I could be wrong about this, so I solicit the
> membership's advice.
>
> My recommendation is to fill out the questions with
> the relevant facts but add at the beginning a caveat
> stating that NCUC and its members reserve to themselves
> the ability to represent their own positions, either
> individually or collectively as a constituency, in the
> WSIS process.
>
> I am copying ALAC members on this. I will forward their
> replies to the list if they wish.
>
> --MM
>
> =====================================
> FROM:           WSIS Workshop Planning Group* <[log in to unmask]>
>
> SUBJECT:        Template for CANN Constituency/Stakeholder Input on
> WSIS
>
> At the WSIS Workshop in Kuala Lumpur
>
(<http://www.icann.org/meetings/kualalumpur/icann-wsis-workshop-01jul04.htm>
> ), ICANN constituencies/stakeholder groups were invited to complete
> the
> template included below and return it to the WSIS Workshop Planning
> Group*.
> The Planning Group would greatly appreciate receiving a completed
> template
> from your group by 13 August 2004. Please email it to
> [log in to unmask]
>
> As discussed at the WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)
> Workshop
> in Kuala Lumpur, the template is being used to gather input from the
> ICANN
> community.  It is an initial step towards developing a bottom-up
> consensus
> to guide positions on Internet Governance, and to strengthen ICANN
> stakeholder awareness of WSIS and WSIS participants' understanding of
> ICANN.
> Submissions will be used to develop a statement with key themes about
> ICANN
> and Internet Governance, which can be used as input and guidance for
> the
> ICANN community and as a resource in working with other entities via
> the
> WSIS process.  The statement will be circulated for endorsement and
> consideration by ICANN Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees
> (as
> appropriate) and will be presented at the next WSIS Workshop at the
> Cape
> town ICANN meeting in December 2004.
>
> Thank you for your help with this effort.  Please contact us if you
> have any
> questions or need additional information.
>
> The WSIS Workshop Planning Group <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> Vittorio Bertola, At-Large Advisory Committee
> Izumi Aizu, At-Large Advisory Committee
> Marilyn Cade, Business Constituency
> David Fares, BusinessConstituency/USCIB
> Tony Holmes, Internet Service & Connectivity Providers
> Elana Broitman, Registrars
> Jeff Neuman, Registries
> Peter Dengate Thrush, InternetNZ
> Theresa Swinehart, ICANN
> Denise Michel, ICANN
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> TEMPLATE FOR ICANN CONSTITUENCY/STAKEHOLDER INPUT ON WSIS (*Please
> email to
> <[log in to unmask]> by 13 August 2004)
>
> 1.  Name of Constituency/Stakeholder Group; description of group;
> contact
> information.
>
> 2.  Role group plays regarding the Internet's system of unique
> identifiers
> and its stable and secure operation (what do you do?).
>
> 3.  Explain how ICANN's activities/responsibilities effect what you
> do.
>
> 4.  Explain why and how your group's members participate in ICANN (and
> give
> examples of some of the priority ICANN issues/activities in which your
> group's members are involved).
>
> 5.  Activities outside of ICANN:  Describe the Internet-related
> issues/activities addressed by (or affecting) your group's members that
> are
> outside of ICANN's mandate? What are some of the other international
> and
> national fora in which your group's members are involved?
>
> 6.  Internet governance:  Identify the other international or regional
> organizations your group's members work with, if any, on Internet
> governance
> discussions/issues [eg. ITU, WIPO, OECD, CITEL, APEC-TEL, IETF, etc.].
> Explain how your group  members have participated in WSIS.
>
>