<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div>Thank you!</div><div> I have watched the hearing. Quite interesting! Thanks for sharing this. </div><div><div><b><i><font color="#009193">Vanda Scartezini</font></i></b></div><div><b><i><font color="#009193">Polo Consultores Associados</font></i></b></div><div><b><i><font color="#009193">Av. Paulista 1159, cj 1004</font></i></b></div><div><b><i><font color="#009193">01311-200- Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil</font></i></b></div><div><b><i><font color="#009193">Land Line: +55 11 3266.6253</font></i></b></div><div><b><i><font color="#009193">Mobile: + 55 11 98181.1464 </font></i></b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> "<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> "<a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at 17:51<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> "<a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [governance] Re: Multistakeholder model<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Anyone interested in reading the formal presentations to the committee can find them <a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/ensuring-security-stability-resilience-and-freedom-global-internet">here</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 April 2014 15:21, Deirdre Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com" target="_blank">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">T</font></font><font color="#444444"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">he
U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee’s
Subcommittee on Communications and Technology's hearing </font></font></font><strong><a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/ensuring-security-stability-resilience-and-freedom-global-internet" target="_blank">Ensuring
the Security, Stability, Resilience, and Freedom of the Global
Internet</a></strong><strong><font color="#2585b2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal"></span></font></font></font></strong><font color="#444444"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">in
Washington DC has just finished</font></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">.
The information about the hearing also contains a link to a
background memo
</font></font><a href="http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF16/20140402/102044/HHRG-113-IF16-20140402-SD002-U1.pdf" target="_blank">http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF16/20140402/102044/HHRG-113-IF16-20140402-SD002-U1.pdf</a><font color="#2585b2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">
</font></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">The
memo gives the background leading up to the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announcement
of 14</font></font><sup><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">th</font></font></sup><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">
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:</font></font></p><p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">ICANN,
as well as the groups that oversee the creation of voluntary Internet
standards </font></font></p><p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">under
the auspices of the Internet Society, receive input from governments,
Internet users, </font></font></p><p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">corporations
investing in the Internet, academics, and engineers that develop the
technology that </font></font></p><p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">makes
the Internet possible. In addition to the corporations and
governments that participate in </font></font></p><p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">the
process, a series of ad hoc groups form the engineering corps of the
Internet. The Internet </font></font></p><p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Engineering
Task Force (IETF), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the
Internet Engineering </font></font></p><p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Steering
Group, and the Internet Research Task Force, now collectively
organized under the </font></font></p><p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">international
non-profit Internet Society (ISOC), are run by volunteers and all
work to create </font></font></p><p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">voluntary
standards for Internet users to make interconnection of all networks
easier. The </font></font></p><p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">flexibility
of this governance structure, referred to as the “multistakeholder
model,” is what has </font></font></p><p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">enabled
the explosive growth of the Internet as a driver of jobs, commerce,
social discourse, and </font></font></p><p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">innovation.
</font></font></p><p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">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”. </font></font></p><p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">So
is this the “multistakeholder model” that we are discussing?</font></font></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Deirdre</font></font></p><div><br></div>-- <br>“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
</font></span></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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