As far as I know ICANN is not a sector member of the ITU.

avri


On 08-Aug-16 09:44, Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G. wrote:
> I see a few hundred of stakeholders in ITU (Sector members). Even
> ISOC. But I don’t see ICANN
>
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> https://www.itu.int/online/mm/scripts/gensel11
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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.
>>
>> 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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