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I see a few hundred of stakeholders in ITU (Sector members). Even ISOC.
But I don’t see ICANN
https://www.itu.int/online/mm/scripts/gensel11
Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
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On 8 Aug 2016, at 7:14, Sam Lanfranco wrote:
> And ICANN is a "stakeholder without standing" in the ITU. As Internet
> governance comes of age it will transpire in many locations and at
> many levels.
> Just like stakeholders within ICANN, ICANN will have to figure out how
> to be everywhere almost all the time to deal with policy issues that
> impinge on its remit.
>
> Sam L.
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> On 2016-08-07 8:47 PM, Mueller, Milton L wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> But I guess GAC has less well-defined institutional dynamics than
>>> ITU. Is that
>>> the difference you're getting at? -- I'm no expert on ITU either...)
>>>
>>> Or, are we now considering governments "stakeholders" too? If so,
>>> why not
>>> just make GAC a garden-variety SG in GNSO? The "GSG" -- Government
>>> Stakeholder Group?
>> Bingo. That's what is happening.
>>
>>> I may not be expert in the implications of the term of art
>>> "multilateral"
>>> but I honestly don't see much difference in ICANN being whip-tailed
>>> by GAC or
>>> ITU if the dynamic is comparable. Can you elaborate on this
>>> distinction?
>> The difference is that an ICANN completely dominated by governments
>> is worse than the ITU because ICANN has global hierarchical power
>> over the DNS, whereas as a treaty-based organization the ITU cannot
>> make any sovereign member do something it doesn't want to do. When
>> ICANN imposes rules on how DNS works however, it has global effect.
>>
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