TCCM is made up of members of the Internet’s technical community: the companies, organizations and groups that operate the critical infrastructure and services at the heart of the Internet. Our members come from all regions of the world to ensure a global technical community perspective.
We appreciate this opportunity to comment on Revision 2, thank the co-facilitators for their proactive engagement, and commend them for their leadership. We are grateful to the IMSB for convening today’s session, and for their support throughout this process.
TCCM appreciates the careful balance Revision 2 strikes between different interests. This document is a firm foundation for a successful conclusion to WSIS+20 at the General Assembly next week.
We wish to highlight three specific points in relation to Revision 2:
- First, we strongly support a permanent Internet Governance Forum, with an appropriately staffed and resourced secretariat within the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
- Second, we welcome recognition of the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group, which provides important strategic guidance for a balanced IGF programme.
- Third, we support the concrete timeframe for the Secretary-General’s proposal on sustainable IGF funding, including a mix of core UN funding and voluntary contributions. Diverse funding will support ongoing financial stability. We stand ready to be part of the Secretary-General’s stakeholder consultation on this important issue.
TCCM believes an Internet that is open, free, global, secure, resilient and interoperable is vital to realizing the WSIS vision. We are firmly committed to the multistakeholder approach as the best way to deliver this, and reiterate previous comments that also apply to Revision 2:
- We strongly support reaffirmation of multistakeholder cooperation, and the commitment to maintaining and improving coordination and cooperation between all stakeholders concerned with Internet governance.
- We support the reference to the NETmundial+10 guidelines as a practical measure to achieve this.
- We welcome the recognition of the technical community as a distinct stakeholder group.
- We support the recognition in Revision 2 that fragmentation would undermine the Internet as a critical global facility for inclusive and equitable digital transformation.
Our full statement on Revision 2 will be sent to the Secretariat in writing and will be available at tccm.global.
Thank you for this opportunity.
The undersigned organisations associate themselves with the above written inputs to Revision 2 of the WSIS+20 outcome document:
- Amazon Registry
- Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)
- Associação DNS.PT (.PT)
- .au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA)
- Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)
- Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR)
- CZ Domain Registry (CZ.NIC)
- DENIC eG
- DotAsia Organisation
- DNS Africa Ltd
- Identify Digital Inc.
- Internet New Zealand Incorporated (InternetNZ)
- Internetstiftelsen (the Swedish Internet Foundation, .se)
- Internet Society NGO (Armenian ccTLD)
- Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS)
- Kenya Network Information Centre(KeNIC)
- Network Information Center Costa Rica (NIC Costa Rica)
- Network Information Center México (NIC México)
- Network Information Center Panama (NIC-Panama)
- NIC Chile
- Nominet UK
- Norid AS
- Public Interest Registry (PIR)
- Punktum dk A/S
- Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland (SIDN)
- Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC)
- ZA Registry Consortium (ZARC)