Tuesday, May 13, 2014

i-Leaders insist on open, bottom-up process @post NETmundial’14



The leaders of the organizations responsible for coordination of the Internet technical infrastructure also known as i-Leaders, ended its meeting at the just concluded NetMundial commended the Mundial meeting, reiterating the importance of open, bottom-up process, reports DigitalSENSE Business News.

Arising from a-day meeting of i-Leaders on 25 April in São Paulo, Brazil following the NETmundial meeting, the group considered a range of issues where dialogue among Internet technical organizations is useful.

DigitalSENSE Business News also notes that the group highlighted that the NETmundial meeting has energized the multistakeholder discussions and model in a positive fashion. 

The leaders underscored the importance of open, collaborative, bottom-up processes across meetings and organisations dealing with the Internet.

During the meeting, the group reflected on a number of other topics as well:

Transition of NTIA's Stewardship of the IANA Functions (http://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/iana/transition) and review of ICANN accountability processes;

The announcement made by ICANN CEO of the launch of a process to review and improve ICANN's own oversight/accountability mechanism and how it is complementary to the IANA function's stewardship evolution process.

Upcoming Internet Governance meetings including the Internet Governance Forum (http://www.intgovforum.org) and the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (http://www.internetsociety.org/plenipotbackground)

Coordination of experiences, plans and resources to further deploy DNSSEC via the ccTLD community

Identification of issues and players to further enable adoption of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) toward accelerating their adoption in communities that don't use the Latin Character sets


The group bade farewell to Raúl Echeberría, CEO of LACNIC and Leslie Daigle, Chief Internet Technology Officer of the Internet Society.

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