[governance] Multistakeholder model

Thu Apr 3 13:14:15 EDT 2014

I think the operative term there is not "multi" but "stakeholder" and the
use of that term rather than referring for example to "the Internet as a
global public good" tells it all I think.

M

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Subject: Re: [governance] Multistakeholder model

That was my perception too - that "multi"= diversity. But the document I
shared, whoever created it :-), suggests a different perception - that
"multi" simply equals more than one, many.

Looking at things from different perspectives is often helpful in reaching
an understanding.

Deirdre

On 3 April 2014 10:54, Vanda Scartezini <vanda at uol.com.br> wrote:

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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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 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-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 "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 

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