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Date: 2002-03-11
JP: Proteste gegen ICANN Rollback
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Die Empörung, die ICANN-Präsident Stuart Lynn mit seinen Plänen zur
zukünftigen Gestaltung des ICANN Präsidiums - Uservertreter raus,
Staatsbürokraten rein - ausgelöst hat, geriet in Japan bereits zur Wut.
Das unten angefügte Protestschreiben kursiert seit heute auf den
internationalen Listen der Civil Liberties Groups. Mehr darüber folgt.
Related
http://www.quintessenz.at/archiv/msg01876.html
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JCA-NET, NaST and some other groups in Japan announce following
statement against Lynn's proposals. This statement is focused on the ICANN
process relate to broad Internet users' concerning including not only ICT
NGOs but also various groups and individuals involved in actions of human
rights, civil rights, civil liberty and anti-globalization from above who use the
Internet as indispensable tools for their own activity.
Please forward freely, and if you can sign in the statement, please let me
know your name and organization.
Toshimaru Ogura (JCA-NET/NaST) mail to: [email protected]
regards, tosh
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Statement: We strongly oppose Lynn's proposals for changing the ICANN
governance structures.
March 11, 2002
On February 24, ICANN president Stuart Lynn issued a report calling for
drastic restructuring of ICANN governance. We are issuing this statement in
opposition to this report. The report wipes out all the efforts made over the
last couple of years to realize a global democracy on ICANN issues,
independent from the interests of national governments. Using the excuse
that the first priority must be given to effectiveness of decision making, Lynn's
report removes representation for individual Internet users and hands their
ICANN Board seats over to a few governments.
If ICANN accepts the Lynn proposals and gives strong authority to a handful
of governments it will lock individual users and civil society interests out of
the ICANN process. Domain name and IP adress that are infrastructure of
information and communication technology of the Internet are managed by
ICANN. It is very difficult to put ICANN process above mission into practice
democratically through present national governments. Therefore ICANN will
become the same as other multinational organizations such as the
WTO/IMF/WB. As a result, a few large countries and big business will have
priority and Internet governance will become directed towards serving their
political and military purposes.
"The driving notion at the time of ICANN's creation was consensus", Lynn's
report says, "it is clear to me that the driving notion today, with the renewed
focus precipitated by the events of 9/11, must be effectiveness. Like any
institution with responsibility for key infrastructure, ICANN must be able to
act when needed."
It is clear that "effectiveness" here does not mean an economic one, but a
political and military effectiveness. In aiming to bring this about the report
proposes to abandon the whole idea of governance by consensus. The
Internet infrastructure is to be exploited for war and emergency purposes by
certain countries and freedom and privacy of Internet communications are
ignored.
The right to communicate is a basic human right. Internet governance should
guarantee this right as its first priority. In no case should public infrastructure
and technological architecture infringe on this. But Lynn's report takes the
wrong standpoint that certain national interests must be placed above this
right to communicate.
The global development of the Internet has supported free communication by
ordinary people and assisted the people's struggle against the brutalities of
globalization. The changes of Internet governance proposed in Lynn's report
will seriously damage people's global communication and, as a result, will
also adversely affect anti-globalization movements.
The ICANN board must reject the removal of consensus and democratic
procedures called for in Lynn's report. We call for the ICANN Board to make
clear its position on the following questions:
1. It must make clear that it does not intend to change the ICANN structures
along the lines of Lynn's proposals.
2. The ICANN board should give an account of any discussions it has had on
the report.
3. It should give an account of any discussions that have taken place with the
US and other governments concerning the report.
=============== *Proposers JCA-NET 3-21 Kandanishiki-cho Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 1002-0054 phone 81-3-3291-2875 fax 81-3-3291-2876 Networkers
against Surveillance Taskforce(NaST, member of NCDNHC) priv-
[email protected]
*Contact person Toshimaru Ogura (JCA-NET/NaST) [email protected]
*Organaizations and individuals that approve (The names not in order)
**organizations Labornet Japan ATTACK JAPAN People's Plan Study Group
Anti-Monitoring/Surveillance Network Concerned steering members of the
People's Media Network
**individuals Jun Oenoki(Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Studies, Tokyo Keizai University) Kunimitsu Moriya(Free International
University Japan) Akira Matsubara (Labornet Japan) Izumi Aizu Yukihiro
Yasuda (freelance writer) Tadakazu Fukutomi (journalist, media producer)
Hiroki Azuma (critic) Ryuta Itagaki (The Network against The Politics of
National Symbols (NAPONS)) Yukihiko Yoshida (Keio University, Graduate
School, DanceMailingList moderator) Seiko Hanochi (Center for International
and Security Studies (Canada)) Takashi Shiraishi (Privacy Action) Yukio
Kurihara (editor) Yutaka Saburi (Chiba Jr. College) Hisashi Murata
(Kitakyushu Kawara-Ban) Kyohei Imai (journalist, the representative of
"Citizens' Association to Stop the Execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal") Taguchi,
Yuichiro (Associate Professor of Mathematics Graduate School of
Mathematics Kyushu University) Tadao Ouchi (Denki Tsushin Sangyo
Roudoukumiai(Telecommunication Industry Labor Union), chair of executive
committee) Masayoshi Ogawa (Denki Tsushin Sangyo
Roudoukumiai(Telecommunication Industry Labor Union), member of
executive committee) Yayori Matsui (Chairperson of Violence Against
Women in War Network Japan (VAWW-NET Japan)) Makoto Hibino $B!J
(BQueer activist $B!K (B Tsuyoshi Okada (editorial committee of "Hahei
Check (Checking Sending Troops)") Domatsu Katsunori (Urgent Campaign
against Japan-Korea Investment Agreement) Tomio Tsunoda (National
Network for Realizing Retrail of Yokohama Case) Tosio Miyazaki (Civil Action
Network for 'Break! the Basic Resident Registers') Eiji Yoshimura (Japan
Consumers Union) (As of March 11, 2002)
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published on: 2002-03-11
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