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FYI, the I* glasnost.<br>
<a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/stewardship" eudora="autourl">
www.internetsociety.org/stewardship<br><br>
</a>NB. From end of next week , I will revamp the
<a href="http://bramsummit.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://bramsummit.org</a> interim project into
<a href="http://iglasnost.org/" eudora="autourl">http://</a><b>IG</b>
<a href="http://iglasnost.org/" eudora="autourl">lasnost.org</a> for
serve everyone as an open transparent repository center for the IG. If
some are interested: I will follow on the response I had made to address
Jorge Amodio's question. <br>
jfc<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><b>Internet Collaborative
Stewardship Framework</b><br>
A framework for tackling the challenges – political, technical,
operational, and social – facing the Internet<br><br>
20 November 2013<br><br>
To understand the difficult issues that impact, or are impacted by, the
global Internet, it is useful to think in terms of how broad these issues
are, and how well understood and agreed upon the approaches to address
issues are. Successfully dealing with all important aspects of an issue
often requires connecting several, sometimes disparate areas of
technology, policy, and development. This implies that a variety of
stakeholders—people, communities, and organizations—need to buy into
solutions and act in concert to ensure collaborative stewardship of the
Internet. In fact, it can be difficult to address emerging issues if
there is a lack of understanding about the problem, incomplete agreement
about the steps required to address it, or insufficient buy-in by the
stakeholders that need to take actions. This document offers a framework
to a) help define the current state of challenges or issues, and b)
suggest a way forward for addressing them.<br><br>
<br>
<b>Challenges, Issues, and Roles<br><br>
</b>A challenge or issue can arise when developments occur faster than
surrounding structures can keep up. This is certainly the case with the
Internet where everyday we are breaking new ground, and in so many areas.
A role, in this framework, is a particular set of actions to be
undertaken by stakeholder or stakeholders to address a challenge. It is
important to correctly define issues and possible roles to assess
appropriate stakeholder actions. For example, continued global addressing
of the Internet is an issue provoked by its challenging growth. An
role in addressing this issue—among several that need to be taken
by stakeholders—is the deployment of the next generation of IP protocol
(IPv6) by industry. This can be further enhanced by supportive policies
and stimulus actions developed and implemented by governments.<br><br>
<b>Classifications<br><br>
</b>Issues can be classified depending on types of solutions (which start
with how well the issues and possible roles are understood and agreed
upon).<br><br>
<b>I. Connecting needs and resources<br><br>
</b>Issues for which answers are known by some, but not the people or
institutions with questions.<br><br>
There is a knowledge gap among different stakeholder groups, and while
the Internet community has had a rich history of inclusiveness, the
Internet is expanding exponentially. It is no longer reasonable to rely
on personal interactions. In this case, the issue can be largely
addressed by connecting the people that need to act with know-how and
resources.<br>
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<a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/" eudora="autourl">
www.internetsociety.org</a> Bridging the knowledge gap can be challenging
in terms of resourcing, scaling, and awareness building. Examples: Spam,
other types of unwanted traffic <br>
<br>
<b>II. Mobilizing collaborative action<br>
</b> <br>
Issues for which answers are known and generally agreed upon; these
require collaborative efforts from many different stakeholders—all of
whom have differing priorities—thus requiring additional coordination and
buy-in/impetus before acting.<br><br>
For these issues, answers to improve the situation for the global
Internet are known, but require collaborative deployment and/or global
deployment so that individual stakeholders can reap individual
benefits.<br><br>
Examples: IPv6 (Global addressing), DNSSEC (Trustworthy domain
names)<br>
.<br>
<b>III. Collective Behavioural Change<br><br>
</b>Issues which require many independent stakeholders to change
operations, habits, or capacity. <br><br>
These problems generally require changes to the traditional incentives
for one or more stakeholders. They may come about through a collective
notion of stewardship, or the emergence of new business models, or even
government or regulatory action. Solutions to these issues may disrupt
the roles of existing stakeholders. In this case, consensus on key
principles or outcomes is critical in order to reach solutions that
benefit the global Internet rather than special interests.<br><br>
Examples: Intellectual Property Rights, Internet access costs<br><br>
<b>IV. Disputed Issues<br><br>
</b>Issues for which there is not general agreement on a
problem.<br><br>
Some issues might be market-specific or particular to a local community.
This means that there may not be agreement on the problem, or perhaps
even that there is a challenge for the global Internet.<br><br>
Example: Sender pays model for Internet service</blockquote><br>
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