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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I think the operative term there is not “multi” but “stakeholder” and the use of that term rather than referring for example to “the Internet as a global public good” tells it all I think.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Deirdre Williams<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 03, 2014 8:01 AM<br><b>To:</b> Vanda Scartezini<br><b>Cc:</b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] Multistakeholder model<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>That was my perception too - that "multi"= diversity. But the document I shared, whoever created it :-), suggests a different perception - that "multi" simply equals more than one, many.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Looking at things from different perspectives is often helpful in reaching an understanding.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Deirdre<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 3 April 2014 10:54, Vanda Scartezini <<a href="mailto:vanda@uol.com.br" target="_blank">vanda@uol.com.br</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Not from my perception. Multi will need direct interested companies, users companies, interested governments ,interested users, organised civil society + the engineering group.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#009193'>Vanda Scartezini</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#009193'>Polo Consultores Associados</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#009193'>Av. 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The information about the hearing also contains a link to a background memo <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><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></span><span style='color:#2585B2'> </span>The memo gives the background leading up to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announcement of 14<sup>th</sup> 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:<span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p>ICANN, as well as the groups that oversee the creation of voluntary Internet standards <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>under the auspices of the Internet Society, receive input from governments, Internet users, <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>corporations investing in the Internet, academics, and engineers that develop the technology that <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>makes the Internet possible. In addition to the corporations and governments that participate in <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>the process, a series of ad hoc groups form the engineering corps of the Internet. The Internet <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the Internet Engineering <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>Steering Group, and the Internet Research Task Force, now collectively organized under the <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>international non-profit Internet Society (ISOC), are run by volunteers and all work to create <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>voluntary standards for Internet users to make interconnection of all networks easier. The <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>flexibility of this governance structure, referred to as the “multistakeholder model,” is what has <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>enabled the explosive growth of the Internet as a driver of jobs, commerce, social discourse, and <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>innovation. <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>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”. <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>So is this the “multistakeholder model” that we are discussing?<span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>Deirdre<span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>-- <br>“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979 <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a> To be removed from the list, visit: <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing" target="_blank">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a> For all other list information and functions, see: <a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance" target="_blank">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance</a> To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see: <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/" target="_blank">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a> Translate this email: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t" target="_blank">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979 <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>