[governance] IG questions that are not ICANN [was: Irony]

[Karl Auerbach]

Milton L Mueller wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----

>> 2. my question to Milton whether there is really interest in any Internet
>> Governance question that is not ICANN;
> 
> There is strong interest here in many IG issues that are not purely ICANN. I see four main categories:

To your fine list I'd add two more items

5. Mechanisms to give end users (or their agents, usually their local 
ISP's) a means to interact with packet carriers so that it is possible 
(perhaps with the payment of some money) to obtain adequate end-to-end 
assurances (not guarantees) that the packet transport quality, as 
measured in terms of delay, jitter, packet loss, and overall bandwidth, 
is adequate to sustain the user's application.   This kind of thing is 
quite important to assure that a region's or a user's investment in 
things like VoIP isn't erased because it can't be used across the wide 
span of the net.

(A note of clarification - I'm not thinking anything technical here - 
not a new version of RSVP - but rather some sort of clearing house 
mechanism in which this kind of end-to-end agreement among a sequence of 
carriers can be worked out.)

6. Mechanisms to facilitate the detection, isolation, and repair of 
technical faults in the net.  Right now there are some informal systems 
that allow repair and troubleshooting teams at user sites and in 
provider network operations centers to look a bit what is going on on 
the net - modulo the proprietary concerns of each provider.  As the net 
grows more complex troubleshooting and repair will require that 
providers let repair teams look a bit deeper into the providers forming 
a path across the net.  This process may need a degree of governance, or 
rather a degree of facilitation (governance perhaps being too strong a 
word) to help make this kind of thing a smooth undertaking.

		--karl--

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