[governance] Multistakeholder model

[Vanda Scartezini]

Not from my perception. Multi will need direct interested companies, users
companies, interested governments ,interested users, organised civil society
+ the engineering group.
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 16:21
To:  "governance at lists.igcaucus.org" <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
Subject:  [governance] Multistakeholder model

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-resilie
nce-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-IF16-2014040
2-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


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