[governance] Call for workshop proposals

[Ralf Bendrath]

Milton L Mueller schrieb:

> I think a WS on the role of Government in IG is useful for the IGF, and
> for civil society to be the initators. I see echoes of this theme in
> current discussions of G7-G20, discussions of ICANN-GAC, discussions of
> different actions of national governments, forum shopping, etc.

This would spark an interesting discussion, indeed. But please do not
equate "Internet Governance" with "ICANN" and only talk about the MAG and
the JPA. ;-)

> As for Net Neutrality, what is the GLOBAL angle on it? What would a
> discussion contribute that hasn’t already been said. 

I guess it would be interesting to invite some folks from IETF and related
 transnational tech forums. The NN debates have so far mostly focused on
regulations by government agencies or the EU, but the IETF for example has
also done some work on "what constitutes fairness in bandwidth
management", e.g. here:
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-briscoe-tsvwg-relax-fairness-00>
They are also working on less infringing ways of dealing with the massive
volume of P2P traffic:
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-p2pi-cooper-workshop-report-01>

Oh, and then there are a number of techies who say that the end-to-end
principle is dead already, because of NAT and related issues. One of our
colleagues in Delft has done a bit of work on this, and the CCC nerds in
Bremen just told me the same over the weekend.

Bottom line: As you may remember, we had a hard time ourselves here
recently defining what "NN" would mean exactly. So I guess some technical
capacity building could not hurt at all here. ;-)

> The only new development there is the rise of Deep Packet Inspection,

Not only. It's also the spread of the "filtering" debates around the
world, even in democratic countries. We're just having it in Germany now. :-(

> which Ralf is working on and perhaps a WS on that would be useful, too

I am all for a workshop on NN and/or on DPI. This might also be a nice
chance for collaboration with the IGF Dynamic Coalitions on Internet
Rights and Principles, on Privacy, and on Freedom of Expression.

Best, Ralf

PS: My recent conference paper on DPI governance is here:
<http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bendrath/Paper_Ralf-Bendrath_DPI_v1-5.pdf>
Feedback is more than welcome.
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