make a likeness with IDG News Service I
was wanting to comment on the statements
made by the french minister in financial
times this morning sir saying that the
icon is totally opaque and also
suggesting a General Assembly which she
reiterated during the session this
morning that's it thank ya I I think
that France along with all countries
that have benefited hugely from the
openness of the Internet would like to
continue to see I can evolve and grow so
we support absolutely support that I
think everyone that has seen our actions
and what we're doing speak for that if
she or others have ideas to create new
structures to enable I can to improve by
all means let's put these ideas on the
table we have open mechanisms to do that
anyone can participate and let's debate
them and if indeed we all agree by
consensus with a diverse participation
of all stakeholders not just governments
but everyone that this is the way to go
I think we should go so I think the fact
that any government including Frances
puts on the table good ideas any ideas
it's our responsibility to consume them
to listen to them and to advance i can
because if i can doesn't advance we're
going to die we have to have to progress
all the time we have for the last 15
years we're not about to stop so we
welcome we welcome any effort to go that
way now i don't think i can is okay
Transparency International when they
sent a team to look at us they said
you're one of the hardest-working
organizations on the planet to be
transparent so and we are and the
assessment is that we are quite
transparent so I think we will continue
to do that transparency account
ability as I said this morning are like
perfection you know so you have to keep
working at them you can never stop and i
can has been working very very hard on
these issues and we will continue to is
the dot wine celsius so serious for them
that they feel that the whole line can
has to be rebuilt for that to what
happened the way they wanted or sir
what's what are they after you think I I
don't know it's good to ask them I mean
wine is serious we all like wine so
there's no no issue with with the fact
that wine is a very serious matter it is
obviously also a major industry for
France and however for other parts of
the world many many countries have wine
industries as well I think that their
concern about this gtld and others gTLDs
is warranted and there are mechanisms
that I can for them to pursue and they
have pursued them and they should
continue pursuing there are additional
mechanisms they have so I think it's a
good thing I mean I understand we all
get frustrated sometimes when we don't
get the conclusions we want but more
importantly is to continue working
through a process that has worked for
many people for many years and to
remember that the Internet economy and
the new gTLDs have created a huge
industry that is serving a lot of people
and building a lot of value let's keep
focused on that and I think we will all
be okay Monica Emmert my eyes online in
Germany on the transition coordination
group there have been calls to change
the composition I'm here for example in
the government advisory committee how
will these be noble changes be made who
will decide on that and when what is the
timeline for that and the second
question is it conceivable that that
might be a question for Steve I don't
know is it conceivable that the
oversight part if you call if you call
it oversight is broken up because in the
gac session also patrick filestream said
then organization like the ITF already
has kind of oversight built in their
processes so is it possible that and and
even that some run first and the DNA the
DNS part might run later what money so
just on your first question which was
about additional changes we have
received a thousand proposals for the
first process that was published right
we can't stay in a loop of changes to
the process this is the process of how
we're going to run the process if we
keep doing this we'll find ourselves
frankly missing a huge window of
opportunity to get this done so I think
you would agree with me that we we had a
big dialogue in Singapore we issued an
initial document we received a thousand
comments that we spent weeks analyzing
and working with the team on as a result
on june sixth we published in you so and
we we changed the process completely
based on the input we got we expanded it
we now 27 people we reduce the role of
the role of the board we did all kinds
of things to give people the sense that
this Coordinating Committee is
definitely not run by i can has full
representation we add a diversity to the
representation to ensure people come
from all over the world so all of that
was done and now we published it now
people will keep coming back with
changes but i think at some point we
need to get going so at the moment the
plan is for the first meeting of the
coordinating group to occur on july
seventeenth here in this hotel probably
in this room so that they can start the
work towards really it'll never be
perfect but i think we're close enough
and most communities we talk to our very
pleased right now so there will be
additional demands no one will find it
perfect but i think we need to move on
at this day
is my sense and then we will have to
spend the next few months talking about
real substance and and how to really do
the transition of the stewardship yeah I
I want to simply emphasize the last
point that Fadi made and alluded to
before the the coordination committee is
not where the action is going to be it
doesn't matter in the end of it how much
you fiddle with expanding it or
adjusting the composition it's not a
decision body it's a facilitation body
the real work is in thinking through
what the issues are and the more time we
spend on trying to fiddle with the
coordination body the less time we're
going to wind up with actually getting
into a substantive discussion so to your
point of the substantive discussions are
what are the stewardship issues where
are the where will the oversight be in
future iono processes where is the
division between policy and execution
and getting that blueprint clear is what
has to be done and we really need the
people who are knowledgeable about the
parts of the system that IDF folks the
DNS experts the top-level domain
operators and so forth to to be in the
room and having that discussion and the
rest is a kind of administrative piecing
together of that and that's where the
real action is going to come quick
follow-up and your personal opinion on
does it have to sit in one place the
oversight or could it just be broken up
I'm going to be very clear I can was
purpose built to house the iono
functions period it's just is
when people think that we need to go and
recreate another I can there's no need
for it we already have it if it can be
improved let's do it together these
processes are here for that but this
frankly ridiculous concept that we're
going to go and reset create new
institutions and go and recreate what I
can was built to do I can was built to
do this and it should continue to do
this now within I can which is as many
of you know not a simple monolithic
group it has many many organisms many
supporting organizations many mechanisms
we should ensure that the proper concern
the proper mechanisms are in place to
address the concerns people have about
separation of certain functions from
others and we already have some of these
separations in place can they be
strengthened by all means as Steve said
it is this coordinating group that needs
to guide us on this but the scope is
clear the scope has been published we
understand it and again to to start
again to build icon in 2015 is not
really the wisest thing to do we have I
can hear today let's make it a better
place and it's working quite well thank
you hi I'm Lisa Fleisher with the Wall
Street Journal people would say that
these days domains aren't as important
than before you know we have apps on our
phones we have Google Facebook you know
all the traffic goes through there so
what does it matter who is in charge of
rubber stamping whether domain names get
improved or not can you talk a little
about that I think you should go ask
3343 people with this event but it
obviously matters you're correct I mean
I think if I ask my children when is the
last time they typed a web domain name
they probably would not remember when
they did so you have a point that the
apps and the search engines are also
mechanisms by which people find things
but I think what is becoming very clear
is that the domain name is not just a
mechanism to find something it is more
than that it is a mechanism to fight
something with certain criteria that a
search doesn't give you for example
right so if if you wanted to make sure
that st. Michael's School in Mara bone
here next door is really a Catholic
school you you can't today by googling
it because anybody can be anybody today
but if you find st. Michael school dot
Catholic because they were able to get
that denomination from Doc Catholic that
criteria tied to that TLD serves
authentication that's one value of a TLD
and that's not just for the Catholics
believe me for example luxury goods
manufacturers around the world are
reeling from the people copying their
goods and calling a Cartier watch occur
to you and it isn't but if you buy a
watch on my shop karti you will know
it's authentic so authenticity is one
important thing another thing is
obviously a community I'm part of a very
small minority in Egypt called the
Coptic Church and we are working
together to build Coptic so we can tie
our community around the globe our
institutions our churches our our
community that's very valuable because
of course if i type Coptic in a search I
will get everything including every word
written and every book and it will be
very difficult for me to authenticate
that this is a document I can count on
in my community so there are many many
ways people will use the domain name
system not just so they don't type a
long IP address which was the original
purpose but maybe to authenticate to
build community cities around the world
France is actually going to consider
holding a major conference called dot
cities to invite mayor's around the
world who are now using their dot city
brands to create services for
their citizens NYC is looking at that
now so you can you know you could put
your address top NYC and maybe one day
you'll find your bills and your services
and unfortunately your parking tickets
and everything else you have to pay so
there are lots of ways that companies
will brand authenticate and use the web
but is that different now than in the
past and and how it why is that more
important now than far be because the
web has become so vast that you need a
way within that these hundreds of
millions of websites to actually rise
today you search where you pay somebody
so that the search results put you up
front but the domain name system will
evolve as a mechanism for people to
actually brand themselves in the
cyberspace and as you may have heard me
say last week in my opinion you know
cyberspace is that there's no more
cyberspace and learning cyber I don't
mean to take up too much time but didn't
just using that the fact that the domain
names are so important for
authentication certainty security
doesn't that give more bed like suit
doesn't that make the argument to these
wine producers as we've been hearing
even more yeah cereal it yes yeah
absolutely their argument is extremely
serious the question is they followed
the process they are not done following
the process they should keep doing what
they're doing follow the process that
for example a big step there we the
applicant themselves for dot wine and
akram could confirm that had asked for
safeguards but the GAC where the French
government and other governments in
Europe were trying to pursue that that
agenda could not come to a consensus so
you know we the board with Steve's
leadership this week issued another
letter saying look if you guys have
other advice if you can with the same
passion we heard from the French
minister today convinced the GAC to come
to a different
consensus by all means we're here we're
here to listen so I think what we need
to do is to just focus on the process
make sure it's fair it's open it allows
everybody to voice themselves and not
frankly scream that nothing is working
when we don't get what we want because
we often don't get what we want it's
important though to follow the process
and they still have many steps they have
many options I hope they will pursue
them vigorously and with with
transparency and openness on my side
guaranteed it's not even in this case
getting what they want it's getting what
they want the way they wanted to get it
they think they're really is underlined
quite common cause authenticity and
assurance that products are the right
products is a shared value and the the
subtlety is exactly where do you put
those mechanisms and there are still
many steps in many avenues available to
provide that level of assurance and the
particular path that the France and
other countries pursued did not prevail
within the GAC so then that leads to if
you don't get the answer you want then
the process must be wrong kind of
thinking and I would have preferred
would hope that the support for the
process which is very vital and each of
these countries will come to depend upon
it for other things should be a value to
be preserved and it does not mean that
they've lost out on the core issue
that's underlying their concern there's
plenty of ways for that to be pursued
and I fully expect that at the end of
the day we will not find the quality of
wine that we drink diminished because of
the Internet yeah I think I just wanted
to add because this is a key issue
I ken's processes are working look at
what happened with dot Africa look at
what happened with dot amazon for those
who say that i can is controlled by one
interest or the other and start painting
here's dot amazon isn't this a global
company headquartered in the united
states with with great products great
services that we all use but at the end
of the day when the board had to make a
decision and took in the public interest
of the people of the Amazonas and the
countries that talk to us we made a
decision similarly without africa where
a single applicant is filed an IRP she
decided that this is her right and it is
her right and we should let her pursue
her right even if the whole African
Union has has a different view the right
is to say I don't agree with the
decision so I think we should not focus
on the one case where we could not the
government's could not reach consensus
let's focus on the big picture of all
the cases where in fact the system is
working well and is well balanced and no
one no one is controlling I can but it's
constituency's my name is ramin wiki I
work for this dozens business news is in
Lagos Nigeria to Akron I like him to
give us invariably an update in terms of
optic of the global domains within the
sector and how intend to increase that
across the regions as you very well know
we received overall 1930 applications
some of these of course are in whether
actually in contention sets so we will
probably delegate around 1300
applications 1300 strings overall 1300 t
of these out of those we have already
signed 440 contracts and we have
delegated 320 out of these 440 contracts
I think also you've asked what are we
doing about increasing the footprint of
the TL DS in the developing countries so
right now as you know the rat this round
is the application round has been closed
so we received all the applications we
will receive we have moved forward with
the processing of these applications but
we are committed to having a second
round we have also some commitments to
do in order for us to launch the second
round we're working on these commitments
like measuring the awareness the global
awareness of the of the new GTR the
program making sure that the program has
promoted the competition in the
marketplace so so we have some things
some steps to do before we can do the
second round but we're committed to that
and we have a lot of efforts ongoing in
the development world and like we have
the middle and Middle East we have a
working group that is come together from
the local community there for the Middle
East and Africa working on what they
would like to see I can do to help
promote DNS in in the region but at the
end of the day I can cannot dictate or
cannot do things to help the region's
they have to come and tell us what we
can do to help them what they need in
order for us to help them and we are
committed to that we have also we just
posted a working group paper on how to
increase the number of registrar's in
the developing world and there are a lot
of suggestions in there for four I can
to look into and we will consider
whatever the community comes back with
the board will look into those and
consider what if there are any programs
that we should actually put in place to
help increase number of registrar's in
the
in countries so there are a lot of
programs across all of I can not the
least of which is universal acceptance
you know universal acceptance is
basically accepting all of the idea ends
across multiple barriers and making sure
that the internet the DNS works in other
scripts and Latin these programs this
program is also underway and let's
remember that we've had for the first
time over a hundred applications in
scripts not in Latin script and these
scripts enable Arabic Chinese Cyrillic
and other other languages to coexist
with Latin on the on the internet so
that somebody that's looking for
something does not have to use multiple
keyboards they can use their native
keyboard across everything they do if
they only use one one language in one
script so all of these programs are
things that the community is developing
and making to enable the DNS and make
the DNS a friction free system in on the
internet I hope that answers your
question and if I can just add think
about the local engagement strategies
that fatty has mentioned that's very
much our aim is doing it with the local
community there try and build capacity
and encouraging people to create more
registrar's people to get involved in
new gtld programs on the ground that's
our major draw is to be as part of the
globalization effort of icon is to go
and work with the community to to be
truly diverse across the board