Kevon Swift, Head – Strategic Relations and Integration!LACNIC Caribbean on the move – Belize!

2 November 2015!kevon@lacnic.net!

Yochai Bekler’s 3-layer conceptualisation!–  Infrastructure !– Standards and Protocols!– Content and Applications!

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1.  International Telecommunication Union’s Plenipotentiary Conference (ITU-PP) in Minneapolis!“a joint and harmonized understanding of the

information society” !“strategic plan for the development of the information

society” !2.  End of the so-called DNS wars (started 1994)!3.  Incorporation of the Internet Corporation for

Assigned Names and Numbers!4.  WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunications

Services (BTA)!

•  Official listing on diplomatic agenda (UN system)!

•  Two phases held in Geneva (2003) and Tunis (2005)!

•  Geneva Principles (2003) and Tunis Agenda for the Information Society (2005)!

•  Multistakeholder???!

World Summit on the Information Society!(WSIS) working definition:!

“Internet governance is the development and application by Governments, the private sector, and civil society, in their respective roles, of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programmes that shape the evolution and use of the Internet.”!

NarrowversusBroad

Narrow Broad• Internetinfrastructure(DNS,IPnumbers,rootservers)• ICANN

• Includeslegal,economic,developmentalandsocioculturalissues

TechnicalandPolicyCoherenceTechnical Policy

• InternetCommunity • Privatesector,governments,civilsociety,academia

Old-real versus new-cyber!

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•  Guest Speaker: Albert Daniels, Senior Manager for Stakeholder Engagement - Caribbean!

•  Proposal Development Process!– Regional Community-based processes: discussions

held in existing forums at RIRs!

•  Global Process!– Consolidate regional inputs into a single proposal!– Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship Proposal

(CRISP) team established for this purpose!– NRO defines CRISP Charter for SLA preparation and

review!

•  Global discussion platform: ianaxfer@nro.net !

•  IANA function stability and reliability: ICANN to continue as the IANA Numbering Services Operator, orderly transition to another operator should such need arise !

•  Replace the role of the NTIA with the RIRs (as representatives of RIR communities): RIRs to establish a service level agreement with the IANA Numbering Services Operator !

•  Establishment of a Review Committee: To review the performance of IANA Numbering Services and advise the RIRs!

•  Clarify IPR-related issues: Intellectual property rights (IPR) related to the provision of the IANA services stay with the community !

•  No major concerns related to IANA Accountability for this transition!

•  Small issues included Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Post-Transition Implementation (PTI)!

•  Dec 2012 – World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT)!

•  Oct 2013 - Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation!

•  April 2014 – NETmundial!

•  Dec 2015 – High-Level UN Meeting on WSIS beyond 2015!

Videos and Diagrams Internet Structure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Ih5_C9HRk !Old-real versus new-cyber: http://diplo.smugmug.com/ILLUSTRATIONS!The Internet Ecosystem:

http://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/Ecosystem_Factsheet.pdf!Three Layers of Digital Governance: https://www.icann.org/news/multimedia/1563!What does the IETF do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpuzl9lvOSM !What does ICANN do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJY5xJKPhjA!What you need to know about the IANA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk5j25nmZKY!What are the IANA functions? http://www.iana.org !Shared Internet Resources:

http://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/is-internetresources-201308-en.pdf !High-level Overview of the IANA Stewardship Transition and Enhancing ICANN Accountability

Processes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8DJScKQttg !CRISP Team proposal:

https://buenosaires53.icann.org/en/schedule/wed-aso-council/presentation-iana-stewardship-numbers-24jun15-en.pdf !

Complex IG Map: http://diplo.smugmug.com/ILLUSTRATIONS !