Re: [apnic-talk] IANA Globalization Progress
(2014/03/21 11:18), Masato Yamanishi wrote:
> Maemura-san and EC members,
>
> Thank you for sharing EC's view.
> Let me quote your statement in slightly different order to make my comment.
>
>> Technically speaking on the basis of our governing provisions,
>> the Executive Council has function to act on behalf of the Members
>> in the interval between AGMs, and to manage the activities, functions
>> and affairs of APNIC.
>>
>> More practically, the EC represents the Membership to manage APNIC's
>> activity,
>> and need to comply the will of the Membership, sometimes with the
>> broader community.
>>
>> We have the power to authorise the activity by DG and Secretariat for
>> the Membership,
>> but need to synchronise our thought on the authorization with the
>> Membership.
>>
>> That is why we set a timeslot to discuss the Internet Governance issue
>> in the AMM this time,
>> after we announced our support for Montevideo Statement in January.
>
> It complies with APNIC by-laws 30, so I don't see any problem from
> procedure perspective.
Yes, as you see the wording in my message was in accordance with it.
> BUT,
>
>> Montevideo Statement was crafted among the I* CEOs in the situation, as
>> Tony has already told,
>> with very limited time allowance with very quick moves at that time,
>> and so was the I*'s reaction to NTIA statement.
>
>
> Do you mean that DG had signed it before consulting EC nor members as
> there was not enough time?
> Does it comply with APNIC by-laws 54? It says;
I am sure he has been in full touch with the EC to proceed these issues and signed them under the EC's authorization.
Akinori
> 54. The main functions of the Director General are:
> a. to act as the chief executive officer of APNIC and the corporation;
> b. to have, subject to the provisions of these by-laws and to the
> direction of the Executive Council, the responsibility for the general
> management and control of the activities, functions and affairs of APNIC
> and the corporation and shall perform all duties and have all powers which
> are commonly incident to the office of chief executive or which are
> delegated by the Executive Council;
> c. to execute all contracts, agreements and other instruments of the
> corporation which are authorised including affixing the Seal of the
> corporation;
> d. to appoint and have general supervision and direction of all of the
> other staff and agents of APNIC and the corporation, including but not
> limited to bookkeeping, accounting and treasury functions on behalf of the
> Treasurer;
> e. to implement strategic policies, prepare plans for APNIC, and shall
> coordinate its activities, functions and affairs;
> f. to report to the Executive Council and to put forward resolutions for
> the consideration of the Executive Council;
> g. to take all the actions required to ensure the economic use of
> APNIC's resources and shall be responsible to the Executive Council for
> all the administrative and financial aspects of APNIC's activities;
> h. to act as the legal representative of APNIC and the corporation;
> i. to act as an ex-officio member of the Executive Council.
>
>
> Rgs,
> Masato Yamanishi
>
>
> On 14/03/19 0:12, "MAEMURA Akinori" <maem at nic dot ad dot jp> wrote:
>
>> Dear Masato, Pranesh and everyone,
>>
>> I know this is very late response for your request for the EC to clarify.
>> Apologies.
>>
>> At Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:41:35 -0700
>> In message <CF4CC73D.85D7D%myamanis at japan-telecom dot com>
>> "Re: [apnic-talk] IANA Globalization Progress"
>> "Masato Yamanishi <myamanis at japan-telecom dot com>" wrote:
>>
>> | Pranesh and All,
>> |
>> | While I'm not new to APNIC, I have same question/concern.
>> | Can EC clarify it?
>> |
>>
>> Montevideo Statement was crafted among the I* CEOs in the situation, as
>> Tony has already told, with very limited time allowance with very quick
>> moves at that time, and so was the I*'s reaction to NTIA statement.
>>
>> Technically speaking on the basis of our governing provisions, the
>> Executive Council has function to act on behalf of the Members in the
>> interval between AGMs, and to manage the activities, functions and
>> affairs of APNIC.
>>
>> More practically, the EC represents the Membership to manage APNIC's
>> activity, and need to comply the will of the Membership, sometimes with
>> the broader community.
>>
>> We have the power to authorise the activity by DG and Secretariat for the
>> Membership, but need to synchronise our thought on the authorization with
>> the Membership.
>>
>> That is why we set a timeslot to discuss the Internet Governance issue in
>> the AMM this time, after we announced our support for Montevideo
>> Statement in January.
>>
>> It was great to see very active discussion there, and that it triggered
>> the continued discussion on line.
>>
>>
>> As Masato points out, now Paul is more engaged in the activity of
>> coordination among our fellow organizations and ITU arena, which is based
>> on the EC's authorization. We authorize becuase we think it needed.
>>
>> I understand it looks like politics game with little thing, if not
>> nothing, to do with Members' own business.
>>
>> However from the viewpoint of a company whose business is serving
>> community with Internet Resource, one of which is APNIC, it is really
>> important to address the risk of unwanted non-viable arrangement and to
>> have people with other stakes understand our position.
>>
>> Moreover, as already mentioned, the forthcoming couple of years are quite
>> crucial stage for us to keep our healthy business environment.
>>
>> That's why we authorize these activities by Secretariat, and what we need
>> to have you understand.
>>
>> As we have many things to come, Director General and the EC will have
>> more communication each other to consider these actions, than we have
>> already been doing.
>>
>>
>>
>> I know, through my own business, that how Internet Governance issues are
>> difficult for people (e.g. of tech community) to realize, I am still on
>> the way to find how I can couple the issue we confront adequately with
>> community's interest.
>>
>> The EC needs to have the Membership's support with well-informed consent,
>> and of course we need to change our thought just in case we found it was
>> not of the Membership and community, and I hope the current discussion
>> will valuable for the purpose.
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> MAEMURA Akinori, my own hat on, but I am sure the EC well sheres these
>> points
>>
>>
>>
>> | Rgs,
>> | Masato Yamanishi
>> |
>> |
>> |
>> | On 14/03/14 23:01, "Pranesh Prakash" <pranesh at cis-india dot org> wrote:
>> |
>> | >Tony Smith [2014-03-14 21:42]:
>> | >> As I'm sure you appreciate, the news from the US has just arrived
>> this
>> | >>morning and a lot of the details are still coming to light. We're
>> | >>planning to prepare something that explains what this development
>> means
>> | >>in more detail when more information is confirmed.
>> | >
>> | >I'm sorry, but I'm new to APNIC's lists.
>> | >
>> | >Was there any consultation within APNIC before APNIC's leader's name
>> was
>> | >added to this statement? Could you also point me towards the community
>> | >consultation / mailing list discussions that took place before the
>> | >Montevideo Declaration was signed as something APNIC endorsed?
>> | >
>> | >> But for now, we wanted to alert everyone to this news and the fact
>> | >>consultation will begin in our region in Singapore.
>> | >
>> | >Could you outline the intra-APNIC consultations (i.e., not the ICANN
>> | >consultations about which ICANN's published a document) that will take
>> | >place with regard to this? Which mailing list will these discussions
>> be
>> | >directed towards?
>> | >
>> | >--
>> | >Pranesh Prakash
>> | >Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society
>> | >T: +91 80 40926283 | W: http://cis-india.org
>> | >-------------------
>> | >Access to Knowledge Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law
>> School
>> | >M: +1 520 314 7147 | W: http://yaleisp.org
>> | >PGP ID: 0x1D5C5F07 | Twitter: https://twitter.com/pranesh_prakash
>> | >
>> |
>> |
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