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GENEVA / INTERNET GOVERNANCE ICANN
STORY: GENEVA / INTERNET GOVERNANCE ICANN
TRT: 3:30
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 DECEMBER 2017 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / RECENT
RECENT - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Exterior, Palais des Nations
19 DECEMBER 2017 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Göran Marby, CEO, ICANN:
“We for instance provide something and, I live in a world of acronyms, it is called the DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions). One of the services we provide is that we make sure that when you go into the websites it is actually that webpage and not another webpage what we call a fake webpage. Today, currently, we have about 750 million users on that system, nothing you ever see is done by the operators.”
4. Medium shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Göran Marby, CEO, ICANN:
“Now we see, for the right reasons, many governments around the world who are engaging in discussions about how internet is used. That is not shown, that is also very good. But I want to put a small warning to it. I called it ‘the road to hell could sometimes be paved with good intentions’. The internet is a very interesting machine, I don’t think you ever thought about it that is actually a machine that works with a lot of small pieces in that machine, but that machine is hold together through a rule set. If that rule set is broken, what’s gonna happen is that not everybody can access the internet. Not because of access, because actually this is an interconnected system but everybody handles it through the same parameters. It is quite fun, isn’t it?”
6. Medium shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Göran Marby, CEO, ICANN:
“One of the reasons why we are engaging in those discussions is not to be part of the policy making or the legislation discussion. What we often end up doing is to explain how internet actually works. It is a small box, these are the parameters but it seems to be working well.”
8. Medium shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Göran Marby, CEO, ICANN:
“Teach your kids the way you teach them to look out of cars when they cross the street, we have to teach the next generation how to use internet. Those discussions often come out of discussions here at the IGF. It is a learning process, especially when it comes to countries from what we usually call the developing countries who still have the digital challenge. For us at ICANN, IGF is one of the most important sessions we go to every year.”
10. Close up, journalists
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Göran Marby, CEO, ICANN:
“It is important for us that with the role we have which is a very technical role, that we are non-political. We provide a service to the world. So therefore we don’t have an opinion about that. What happens on top of internet, the sort of content-related or how traffic is done, is not something that is related to us.”
12. Wide shot, press briefing room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Göran Marby, CEO, ICANN:
“We represent the user interface to the internet, we are not the internet. We are the user faces. And that is a very very very important distinction. Your internet is also different from your internet, because you use internet differently, you go to different sites and you maybe live in different countries as well. That is why IGF has such a big important role to assemble people to have that discussion and if there are things or problematic with it we do one thing, it is important, but that is out of our scope.”
14. Wide shot, press briefing room
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Göran Marby, CEO ICANN:
“ICANN exist on the fundamental believe that we think that internet is a very good thing. We exist because we want to provide the service to the world for the user interface of the internet. And that means that the underlining thing that connecting people to one global system is good for mankind. So that is why we exist, and then therefore we are always there to try to get more users on the internet. But we don’t do that by ourselves, we are small, essential part, we are a small part, many others have to make decisions.”
16. Close up, journalist
17. Close up, microphone
CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said that the US decision on net neutrality will not have an impact on his organization.
Asked about the ending of net neutrality under the US President Trump administration, CEO of ICANN Göran Marby told reporters today (19 Dec) in Geneva at a side event of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) that “it is important for us that with the role we have which is a very technical role, that we are non-political. We provide a service to the world. So therefore we don’t have an opinion about that. What happens on top of internet, the sort of content-related or how traffic is done, is not something that is related to us.”
Marby added “we represent the user interface to the internet, we are not the internet. We are the user faces. And that is a very very very important distinction. Your internet is also different from your internet, because you use internet differently, you go to different sites and you maybe live in different countries as well.”
He explained “that is why IGF has such a big important role to assemble people to have that discussion and if there are things or problematic with it we do one thing, it is important, but that is out of our scope.”
ICANN, a global multi-stakeholder organization was created by the US Government, coordinates the Internet DNS, IP addresses and autonomous system numbers.
Marby emphasized the need for more security measures. He said “we, for instance, provide something and, I live in a world of acronyms, it is called the DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions). One of the services we provide is that we make sure that when you go into the websites it is actually that webpage and not another webpage what we call a fake webpage. Today, currently, we have about 750 million users on that system, nothing you ever see is done by the operators.”
While ICANN began in the US government, it now claims to be governed through multi-stakeholders and independent of any one government.
Marby sai d“one of the reasons why we are engaging in those discussions is not to be part of the policy making or the legislation discussion. What we often end up doing is to explain how internet actually works. It is a small box, these are the parameters but it seems to be working well.”
ICANN's mission is to collaborate with a variety of stakeholders including companies, individuals, and governments to ensure the continued success of the Internet.
Marby concluded that “ICANN exist on the fundamental believe that we think that internet is a very good thing. We exist because we want to provide the service to the world for the user interface of the internet. And that means that the underlining thing that connecting people to one global system is good for mankind. So that is why we exist, and then therefore we are always there to try to get more users on the internet. But we don’t do that by ourselves, we are small, essential part, we are a small part, many others have to make decisions.”
Marby welcomed the new development that governments are now getting more and more involved in discussion about internet usage.
He said “now we see, for the right reasons, many governments around the world who are engaging in discussions about how internet is used. That is not shown, that is also very good. But I want to put a small warning to it. I called it ‘the road to hell could sometimes be paved with good intentions.’
Marby added “the internet is a very interesting machine, I don’t think you ever thought about it that is actually a machine that works with a lot of small pieces in that machine, but that machine is hold together through a rule set. If that rule set is broken, what’s gonna happen is that not everybody can access the internet. Not because of access, because actually this is an interconnected system but everybody handles it through the same parameters. It is quite fun, isn’t it?”
Today 3,5 billion people are connected daily to the internet. According to ICANN CEO “no one has built the internet before, many people take it for granted, we have to continue working on it.”
Marby advised “teach your kids the way you teach them to look out of cars when they cross the street, we have to teach the next generation how to use internet. Those discussions often come out of discussions here at the IGF. It is a learning process, especially when it comes to countries from what we usually call the developing countries who still have the digital challenge. For us at ICANN, IGF is one of the most important sessions we go to every year.”
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