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[Espaņol]I write to you to ask for your support in the upcoming Names Council election.
I am the administrative contact for .CL, the top level domain for the Republic of Chile. This domain was delegated in 1987, and is one of the oldest in Latin America.
Managing NIC Chile has given me an excellent opportunity to become involved and take part of the development of the Internet, in Chile and globally. I have presented some of this experience in the two INET papers of which I am a co-author:
In the current ICANN formation process, I was a participant in the IFWP deliberations, attending the Buenos Aires meeting, and also in the subsequent DNSO process, where I attended the meeting at Monterrey. I was one of the founding members of the LACTLD group, and I have been involved in all the wwTLD activities, including a presentation given at the San Jose workshop. Currently, I am in the organizing comittee of the upcoming Santiago ICANN Board meeting.
If elected, I will do my best to represent all ccTLDs. As any candidate, I draw my inspiration from the environment closest to me, in my case Chile and Latin America, but in the Names Council I will work to make sure that the interests and opinions of all ccTLDs are given the weight that they deserve in the DNSO.
We ccTLDs have been working for many years to serve the Internet community in or respective countries. The stability of the Internet require that any changes in this situation be made with the greatest care and consideration of their effects. ICANN must be responsive to the collective opinions of the national governments, represented through the GAC, but it must also assure that due process is followed whenever actions are taken that affect a ccTLD.
We must also be responsive in our ccTLDs to the problems created by the interaction between domain names and trademarks and other forms of intellectual property. However, each ccTLD must have autonomy to address these issues as the local conditions require. In Chile, we have found that a system based on mediation and arbitration works well to solve the objections that are raised when a domain name is first requested. Other countries, with different legal systems, may choose very different solutions, and we must respect these differences.
ICANN and the DNSO must take full advantage of the technology that they manage, to facilitate participation of everyone, minimizing the need for travel and face-to-face meetings. Ideally, only discussions should be carried out at those meetings, and all important decisions whould be made by electronic voting.
The problem of how ICANN recovers the cost of its operation must be solved, so that it is a financially sound organization. We must work to make sure that resources are collected in such a way that in the long run all the community that uses the services of ICANN contribute to its funding. However, initially we must recognize the different degrees of development of the Internet around the world, and be careful that the funding mechanisms chosen for ICANN do not hamper the development of the Internet in countries where it is just emerging.