[governance] Multistakeholder model

[Lee W McKnight]

McTim went too far...it probably was not written by a 20 year-old intern, they get stuck with more menial tasks.

Odds are principle 'drafter' was a...21-26-year-old committee staffer, cribbing/revising from lobbyist-provided talking points.

Hey at least they spelled IAB right.  ; )

Lee
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Subject: Re: [governance] Multistakeholder model

Thanks for sharing this Deirdre.

McTim, suggesting that a 20 year old intern did that background brief to serve a congressional subcommittee as this critical one, must be some kind of a joke, I presume. Certainly, an un-paid intern!
The overall narrative is pretty much in line with the US reasoning, except that for once, it is more or less raw and plain.

We still have a long way to go... I am afraid...

JC
PS: McTim: if you have the name of that intern, I am pleased to offer him a position. Even though I cannot but disagree with the perspective, the job is rather well done.



Le 2 avr. 2014 ? 21:21, Deirdre Williams a ?crit :


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

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