[governance] Need Help - History of Internet Governance

[Ronda Hauben]

Dear Jovan

Is there some reason you are making a DVD instead of, or along with
putting the documents online at some web site that everyone has access
to?

Considering the public nature of the issues involved, it is important
there be public information available to people to understand the issues.

I have done quite a bit of research about the history of the development
of the Internet

During the early stages of development of the tcp/ip protocol, Great
Britain, Norway and the US were involved in collaborative research.

Great Britain at the time had its own way naming conventions.

Later they changed to adopt a common means of naming with the US.

It seems good you are making an effort to gather materials, but
the issue at hand isn't just the DNS functions, but how the Internet
infrastructure is to be managed.

To narrow the question to how the Domain Name System is managed is
or how some other system is managed is not getting at the principles
that need to be clarified.

We are working on an issue of the Amateur Computerist newsletter
that reviews some of the struggle and documents over the creation
of a management infrastructure, and then of ICANN.

We hope to have it available online soon, at least before the Tunis
meeting.

In it we will include an email from Ira Magaziner and an answer to
the email from before he created ICANN.

The way he mishandled the process of creating a tentative management
structure by creating ICANN instead has caused the current problems
and conflicts and left the Internet and its users without an entity
that solves the actual problem.

It is important this not happen again in another way.

There is a need for some serious consideration of the development
of the Internet and the model that emerges from that development
so that something better than ICANN can be created.

I have written at this in several articles a while ago, and I have
the proposal I sent to Ira Magaziner which I submitted to the WSIS
process.

There are a number of other documents I have, but it would be good
to see these gathered to be kept somewhere online, rather than
on a DVD that will only be available to some people, and that others
may not even be able to access if they don't have a DVD player.

Thanks

Ronda

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Jovan Kurbalija wrote:

> Thank you for your replies on the evolution of the Internet. I forgot to
> send more info about IG DVD. Here it is...
>
>
> IG DVD (co-production by Diplo and UNDP-APDIP) is a multimedia tool for
> exploring issues surrounding Internet Governance. It may be used for
> training, research and general awareness building.
>
>
> IG DVD consists of the following segments:
>
> FILM: The film introduces issues related to Internet Governance.
> More than 30 leading policy makers and academics share their views on a
> whole array of questions related to Internet Governance. There will be also
> multimedia materials received from GKP, UNDP APDIP and ICANN. The film will
> last 52 minutes.
>
>
> COURSE: The course builds upon Diplo's existing e-learning module on
> Internet Governance. It is divided into five baskets: infrastructure and
> standardization, legal, economic, development, and socio-cultural.
>
>
> LIBRARY: The Library contains e-books, articles, policy papers and reviews
> on Internet Governance. Particular attention is given to the Asia-Pacific
> region with material from the UNDP's Asia-Pacific Development Information
> Programme.
>
> IMPORANT: If you would like to contribute e-books, articles, policy papers
> to the IG DVD Library please send e-mail to igdvd at diplomacy.edu.
>
>
> QUIZ: The quiz serves a dual purpose. It can be used at the start of each
> chapter to identify the key issues and learning objectives; and it can also
> function as a revision exercise for each completed chapter.
>
>
> If you want to receive IG DVD please send an e-mail with your address to
> igdvd at diplomacy.edu. If you will be in Tunis you can receive your copy of
> DVD there.
>
>
>
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