[governance] Multistakeholder model

[McTim]

Hi Lee,

You are correct, it was probably written by someone more senior than
an intern, someone who has dozens of issue areas to become conversant
with every week.  In my defense I said "drafted by".

But this is all a red herring becasue I actually made a more important
point that some "journalists" and "academics" either deny or refuse to
admit exists, to wit:

"There are other standards bodies, other orgs that work on numbers,
hundreds of DNS orgs, and lots of folk in issue areas that have
self-organised in many hundreds of  CS bodies to tackle challenges
they see."

There is a very large and growing MS Internet eco-system.  If you are
opposed to this politically, well fine, but one can't deny that it
actually exists!

I had thought this thread had died, but alas.....




On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Lee W McKnight <lmcknigh at syr.edu> wrote:
> McTim went too far...it probably was not written by a 20 year-old intern,
> they get stuck with more menial tasks.
>
> Odds are principle 'drafter' was a...21-26-year-old committee staffer,
> cribbing/revising from lobbyist-provided talking points.
>
> Hey at least they spelled IAB right.  ; )
>
> Lee
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> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Deirdre Williams
> Subject: Re: [governance] Multistakeholder model
>
> Thanks for sharing this Deirdre.
>
> McTim, suggesting that a 20 year old intern did that background brief to
> serve a congressional subcommittee as this critical one, must be some kind
> of a joke, I presume. Certainly, an un-paid intern!
> The overall narrative is pretty much in line with the US reasoning, except
> that for once, it is more or less raw and plain.
>
> We still have a long way to go... I am afraid...
>
> JC
> PS: McTim: if you have the name of that intern, I am pleased to offer him a
> position. Even though I cannot but disagree with the perspective, the job is
> rather well done.
>
>
>
> Le 2 avr. 2014 à 21:21, Deirdre Williams a écrit :
>
> The U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee's Subcommittee
> on Communications and Technology's hearing Ensuring the Security, Stability,
> Resilience, and Freedom of the Global Internet in Washington DC has just
> finished. The information about the hearing also contains a link to a
> background memo
> http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF16/20140402/102044/HHRG-113-IF16-20140402-SD002-U1.pdf
> The memo gives the background leading up to the National Telecommunications
> and Information Administration (NTIA) announcement of 14th March "to
> transition the IANA functions to the global multi-stakeholder community".
> Pages 3/ 4 of the memo give a four paragraph explanation of "The
> Multistakeholder Community". This is the first paragraph of that section:
>
> ICANN, as well as the groups that oversee the creation of voluntary Internet
> standards
>
> under the auspices of the Internet Society, receive input from governments,
> Internet users,
>
> corporations investing in the Internet, academics, and engineers that
> develop the technology that
>
> makes the Internet possible. In addition to the corporations and governments
> that participate in
>
> the process, a series of ad hoc groups form the engineering corps of the
> Internet. The Internet
>
> Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the
> Internet Engineering
>
> Steering Group, and the Internet Research Task Force, now collectively
> organized under the
>
> international non-profit Internet Society (ISOC), are run by volunteers and
> all work to create
>
> voluntary standards for Internet users to make interconnection of all
> networks easier. The
>
> flexibility of this governance structure, referred to as the
> "multistakeholder model," is what has
>
> enabled the explosive growth of the Internet as a driver of jobs, commerce,
> social discourse, and
>
> innovation.
>
> Apart from ICANN four "ad hoc groups" are mentioned directly, five if you
> count ISOC which "collectively organize[s]" them. There is no denying that
> each of these five is a "stakeholder", and, being more than one they qualify
> as "multi". However there is no diversity - in fact they are described as "
> the engineering corps of the Internet".
>
> So is this the "multistakeholder model" that we are discussing?
>
> Deirdre
>
>
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> Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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Cheers,

McTim
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route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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