[governance] Re: Multistakeholder model

[Deirdre Williams]

Anyone interested in reading the formal presentations to the committee can
find them here<http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/ensuring-security-stability-resilience-and-freedom-global-internet>


On 2 April 2014 15:21, Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:

> The U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee's
> Subcommittee on Communications and Technology's hearing *Ensuring the
> Security, Stability, Resilience, and Freedom of the Global Internet
> <http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/ensuring-security-stability-resilience-and-freedom-global-internet>* in
> Washington DC has just finished. The information about the hearing also
> contains a link to a background memo
> http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF16/20140402/102044/HHRG-113-IF16-20140402-SD002-U1.pdf The
> memo gives the background leading up to the National Telecommunications and
> Information Administration (NTIA) announcement of 14th March "to
> transition the IANA functions to the global multi-stakeholder community".
> Pages 3/ 4 of the memo give a four paragraph explanation of "The
> Multistakeholder Community". This is the first paragraph of that section:
>
> ICANN, as well as the groups that oversee the creation of voluntary
> Internet standards
>
> under the auspices of the Internet Society, receive input from
> governments, Internet users,
>
> corporations investing in the Internet, academics, and engineers that
> develop the technology that
>
> makes the Internet possible. In addition to the corporations and
> governments that participate in
>
> the process, a series of ad hoc groups form the engineering corps of the
> Internet. The Internet
>
> Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the
> Internet Engineering
>
> Steering Group, and the Internet Research Task Force, now collectively
> organized under the
>
> international non-profit Internet Society (ISOC), are run by volunteers
> and all work to create
>
> voluntary standards for Internet users to make interconnection of all
> networks easier. The
>
> flexibility of this governance structure, referred to as the
> "multistakeholder model," is what has
>
> enabled the explosive growth of the Internet as a driver of jobs,
> commerce, social discourse, and
>
> innovation.
>
> Apart from ICANN four "ad hoc groups" are mentioned directly, five if you
> count ISOC which "collectively organize[s]" them. There is no denying that
> each of these five is a "stakeholder", and, being more than one they
> qualify as "multi". However there is no diversity - in fact they are
> described as " the engineering corps of the Internet".
>
> So is this the "multistakeholder model" that we are discussing?
>
> Deirdre
>
> --
> "The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
> Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
>



-- 
"The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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