| Comment Close Date | Statement Name | Status | Assignee(s) and | Call for Comments | Call for Comments Close | Vote Announcement | Vote Open | Vote Reminder | Vote Close | Date of Submission | Staff Contact and Email | Statement Number |
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| 31.01.2014 | ICANN's Draft Vision, Mission & Focus Areas for a Five-Year Strategic Plan | ADOPTED 14Y, 1N, 0A | Tijani Ben Jemaa (AFRALO) | 20.01.2014 | 24.01.2014 20:00 UTC | 25.01.2014 | 25.01.2014 00:01 UTC | 30.01.2014 | 31.01.2014 20:00 UTC | 31.01.2014 | Denise Michel denise.michel@icann.org | AL-ALAC-ST-0114-05-00-EN |
FINAL VERSION TO BE SUBMITTED IF RATIFIED
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FINAL DRAFT VERSION TO BE VOTED UPON BY THE ALAC
The At-Large Advisory Committee considers the submitted “ICANN Draft Vision, Mission, and Focus Areas for a Five Years Strategic Plan” a comprehensive document addressing all the aspects of a future strategic plan.
The ALAC supports the ICANN vision as stipulated. Nevertheless, as the most important concern today is about the security of Internet and the trust in the Internet, the ALAC would prefer to include those aspects of trust and security in the paragraph describing the ICANN Vision in this way: "...to support a single, open, and globally interoperable Internet with a secure and trusted DNS". The same should be done in all focus areas paragraphs each time the unique and open Internet is mentioned.
To reach the required trust and to make the internationalization meaningful, the ALAC believes that the IANA function should be internationalized as well. We advise to add the following bold point in the “Evolving ICANN’s implementation of the multi-stakeholder approach for coordination” focus area section: “Further strive to prepare a framework for the internationalization of the IANA function”.
We cannot speak about public interest without considering the end-users’ interest. Hence the ALAC recommends that it is necessary to add another bold point to the “Developing a world-class public responsibility framework” focus area section: “Engage and develop the End-Users community globally for full involvement in policy development and decision making processes”.
The ALAC finds the other elements of the focus Areas well expressed and detailed. It appreciates this preliminary work to prepare for a future-oriented and concerted 5 years strategic plan and strongly supports that process.
FIRST DRAFT SUBMITTED
The At-Large Advisory Committee considers the submitted “ICANN Draft Vision, Mission, and Focus Areas for a Five Years Strategic Plan” a comprehensive document addressing all the aspects of a future strategic plan.
The ALAC supports the ICANN vision as stipulated. Nevertheless, as the most important concern today is about the security of Internet and the trust in the Internet, the ALAC would prefer to include those aspects of trust and security in the paragraph describing the ICANN Vision in this way: ….to support a single, open, and globally interoperable Internet with a secure and trusted DNS. The same should be done in all focus areas paragraphs each time the unique and open Internet is mentioned.
To reach the required trust, and to make the internationalization meaningful, the ALAC believes that the IANA function should be internationalized as well. We advise to add the following bold point in the “Evolving ICANN’s implementation of the multi-stakeholder approach for coordination” focus area section: “Further strive to prepare a framework for the internationalization of the IANA function”.
We can’t speak about public interest without considering the end-users’ interest. That’s why the ALAC thinks that it is necessary to add another bold point to the “Developing a world-class public responsibility framework” focus area section: “Engage and develop the End-Users community globally for full involvement in policy development and decision making processes”.
The ALAC finds the other elements of the focus Areas well expressed and detailed. It appreciates this preliminary work to prepare for a future-oriented and concerted 5 years strategic plan. We strongly support that.
