[governance] Re: Multistakeholder model

[Vanda Scartezini]

Thank you!
 I have watched the hearing. Quite interesting! Thanks for sharing this.
Vanda Scartezini
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From:  "williams.deirdre at gmail.com" <williams.deirdre at gmail.com>
Reply-To:  "governance at lists.igcaucus.org" <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>,
"williams.deirdre at gmail.com" <williams.deirdre at gmail.com>
Date:  Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at 17:51
To:  "governance at lists.igcaucus.org" <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
Subject:  [governance] Re: Multistakeholder model

Anyone interested in reading the formal presentations to the committee can
find them here 
<http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/ensuring-security-stability-resilie
nce-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 Committee¹s 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-resilienc
> e-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 ³to transition the IANA functions to the global multi-stakeholder
> community². Pages 3/ 4 of the memo give a four paragraph explanation of  ³The
> Multistakeholder Community². 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 ³multistakeholder
> model,² is what has
> 
> enabled the explosive growth of the Internet as a driver of jobs, commerce,
> social discourse, and
> 
> innovation. 
> 
> Apart from ICANN four ³ad hoc groups² are mentioned directly, five if you
> count ISOC which ³collectively organize[s]² them. There is no denying that
> each of these five is a ³stakeholder², and, being more than one they qualify
> as ³multi². However there is no diversity ­ in fact they are described as
> ³ the engineering corps of the Internet².
> 
> So is this the ³multistakeholder model² that we are discussing?
> 
> Deirdre
> 
> 
> -- 
> ³The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
> Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979



-- 
³The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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