[governance] Reposting Workshop 2: Successes and failures of

[McTim]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
> On 13/04/2010, at 3:56 PM, William Drake wrote:
>
> This workshop will compare the changing institutional and procedural
> approaches that have been applied to the problems of Internet governance
> over the last 15 years, and facilitate the sharing of various perspectives
> about the effectiveness and legitimacy of each approach.
>
> Could someone provide some examples to clarify the focus here?
>  What institutional and procedural approaches to which problems of Internet
> governance would we be talking about?  Only actually existing or also
> proposed?  Is the idea to consider the relative merits of, for example,
> intergovernmental vs. MS vs. private sector arrangements?
>
> Existing past and present approaches, ranging from very informal
> decentralised arrangements for governance of Usenet, more hierarchical
> private approaches such as the RIRs and IETF, the evolving private
> management of the DNS (in the shadow of governments) through ICANN,
> multi-stakeholder experiments such as CGI.br, purely governmental such as
> the OECD... you can think of as many examples as I can.
>
> If so, a comparative assessment would probably be better if one could
> identify issue spaces to which the different models were applied, e.g.
> intergovernmental vs PS approaches to privacy rules, rather than comparing
> apples and oranges.
>
> I agree with the desirability of not drawing too many close parallels across
> different governance domains, would think that we can drill down to that
> level once we have selected the panelists and begun to brainstorm with them
> about the exact content of the session.
>
> In each case reference will be made to the WSIS process criteria which
> recommend the full involvement of governments, the private sector, civil
> society, and international organizations in Internet governance
> arrangements.
>
> Would this be the criteria for making judgements as to which is a success
> and which is a failure?  In which case everything that's not MS would be
> deemed a failure? (!) Or  would there be some other criteria?  If so, could
> we have an illustration or two of successes and failures and the basis for
> the judgement?
>
> No that would be too simplistic.  I probably wouldn't be a panelist, so my
> opinions aren't worth anything, but I would say that there are privately-run
> ccTLD registries like SIDN, Nominet and (to a lesser extent) auDA that have
> largely been a success, whereas clear failures to date have been the ITU-led
> process around the ENUM standard, and the RIR-led migration to IPv6.

I don't understand why either of these can be considered failures.

I've been involved in both processes and it is fairly trivial to get
either one. Just because users haven't adopted either one as much as
some would like doesn't mean they are "failures".

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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