AW: [governance] Reconstituting MAG

[Meryem Marzouki]

Wolfgang,

There's something missing in your model below: the IGF's ICANN:)
Meryem

Le 13 févr. 08 à 10:01, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang a écrit :

> Here is another idea which could be taken into consideration  
> discussing the future of MAG:
>
> Among the key conceptual principles of CS are, inter alia,  
> multistakeholder, bottom up PDP, end-to-end, openess and  
> transparency. But, as said in previous mails, the meaning of these  
> principles is not yet really understood and also vague developed  
> (both from an practical and theoretical point of view).
>
> The present MAG approach follows more or less the traditional  
> (hierarchical) "diplomatic architecture" with a  
> "group" (representing various constitutencies and stakeholders) at  
> the top. Why we shuld not change this architcture and organize the  
> IGF (and its administation/management/planning etc.) in a way which  
> is closer to the network architecture of the Net?
>
> In such a model MAG would be much mire a "coordinator" than a  
> "decider" and MAG members would function like "root servers",  
> answering queries and pointing to the right end address, the  
> millions of Internet users (the sovereign of the cyberspace). We  
> should not forget, the IGF was not created to have a new "playing  
> ground" for diplomats and political activists but as a platform to  
> serve first of all the 1st and 2nd (and hopefully soon the 3rd)  
> billiion of Internet users helping them to manage the challenges  
> and problems coming along when the Internet penetrates their daily  
> lifes.
>
> And while you have to have (for technical reasons) a certain limit  
> of root servers in the legacy root, you can have much more with the  
> Anycast protocol. Insofar, it make sense practically to have a  
> smaller MAG at the root level, but this does not mean, that you  
> "exclude" others. Furthermore, national (regional) IGFs could be  
> seen as "domains", playing a role like ccTLD and gTLD registries in  
> the Internet Architecture.
>
> With other words, we conceptualize and understand MAG not as a  
> centralized decision making body but as something like a database  
> of all the variuos regional and national IGFs (like IANA), securing  
> that the joint IGF-protocol is respected when individual, specific  
> local policies and activities are developed.
>
> Wolfgang.
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