[governance] US House Bill to Affirm the Policy of the United States Regarding Internet Governance

[parminder]

On Thursday 18 April 2013 12:24 AM, michael gurstein wrote:
>
> Okay but can anyone point to an authoritative definition/description 
> of what exactly is meant by "the successful multistakeholder model 
> that governs the Internet" i.e. what exactly was the US Congress 
> voting unanimously to "preserve and advance".
>

for instance, whether NTIA's exclusive exercising of the root zone 
authorisation function is to be considered as a part of the 'successful 
multistakeholder (MS) model' or not... And if it is indeed MS, then if 
/exactly/ the same function is tranferred to a multinational committee 
(without changing anything else about ICANN plus system at all) why 
would that not still continue to be called as a MS system, and not a 
movement from MSism to government control?

And whether OECD's inter governmental Council and its inter-governmental 
Committee on Information, Communication and Computer Policy doing 
considerable (global) Internet policy work, in consultation with other 
stakeholders, but only giving them an advisory capacity, should be 
considered as an aspect of the 'successful MS model or not. If so, 
whether a similar UN based inter-gov committee with similar (or better) 
advisory status based relationships with other stakeholders will 
continue to be called as a MS system, or would that somehow, magically, 
become classified as a move towards government control?

The above two are the simple and straight forward demands of most 
developing countries (leave out a few authoritarian  ones whose demand 
we dont have to consider/ concede) . Both these demands /do not at all 
change the degree of MSism in the present global IG architecture /(I am 
happy to be challenged on this) . However, evidently this new US law is 
basically aimed at resisting these democratic demands of developing 
countries, and the sad part is that most of the global civil society 
seems to be ready to get hoodwinked by such obviously less than honest 
professions of MSism and fight against governemnt control over the 
Internet. It is just a fight for preserving US control (gov plus 
business) over the global Internet - that is all what it is. And CS 
should resist it, seeking greater democratisation..

parminder


> M
>
> *From:*governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org 
> [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] *On Behalf Of *John Curran
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:44 AM
> *To:* governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> *Subject:* Re: [governance] US House Bill to Affirm the Policy of the 
> United States Regarding Internet Governance
>
> On Apr 12, 2013, at 8:56 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org 
> <mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org>> wrote:
>
>         http://energycommerce.house.gov/markup/markup-bill-affirm-policy-united-states-regarding-internet-governance
>
>         ...
>
>         "It is the policy of the United States to promote a global
>         Internet free from government control and to preserve and
>         advance the successful multistakeholder model that governs the
>         Internet."
>
> This bill was just approved by the House Committee on Energy and 
> Commerce; it it is now
>
> H.R. 1580, a bill to affirm the policy of the United States 
> regarding Internet governance.
>
>  <http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF00/20130417/100723/BILLS-113pih-InternetFreedom.pdf>
>
> The policy text has been changed to only the following:
>
>     "It is the policy of the United States to preserve and advance the 
> successful multistakeholder
>
>      model that governs the Internet."
>
> Given that it has bipartisan support, it is likely to move fairly 
> quickly to adoption.  The actual net
>
> effect of such a statement becoming official USG policy is subject to 
> interpretation, but it would
>
> definitely make it difficult for the USG to back away from the 
> "multistakeholder model" at any
>
> point in the future.
>
> FYI,
>
> /John
>
> Disclaimers: My views alone.  No congress critters were harmed in the 
> production of this email.
>

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