Mapping Internet Governance By Kenneth Neil Cukier The Economist.

Mapping Internet Governance

By Kenneth Neil Cukier The Economist

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It was bad.Source: John December, 1994, CyberMap Landmarks(from Atlas of Cyberspace)



More helpful. Source: Donna Cox & Robert Patterson, NCSA 1992(Also from Atlas of Cyberspace)

Question:How do you “map” the landscape of policy issues -- Governance! -- where the “infrastructure” is even less tangible and more abstract?



This and the following two slides from Diplo Foundation, 2004.

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Mapping Internet Governance

• What is Internet governance?

• How is it done today?

• What are some of the problems?

• What are some of the proposed solutions?

• What might work best?

• How can we conceptualize the “space”?

Jon Postel, 1943-1998

What is Internet governance?

• Content versus carriage (what is transported (versus how it works) MP3 : DNS

• Control from top-down or bottom-up (centralized or decentralized networks and thus policy) telecoms : internet

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• ICANN

How is it done today? Cyberspace v. Sovereignty

• UK RIP, US PATRIOT, The Great Firewall of China, etc.

• WTO, OECD, UNCITRAL, etc.

• ICANN (DOC, previously DOD/NSF & academia and industry)

What are some of the problems?

• Developing countries object (want forum)• Industrializing nations object (want more

influence)• Western countries reluctant (wary if

unilateral power, want multilateralism)____________________________________• US relinquishes direct power -- provided

private sector to ensure internet innovation

Source: i-dns.net

What are some of the proposed solutions?

• Give it to the UN

• Keep things as they are with US in control

• Find a “third-way”: (is it really an either/or situation?)

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• World Summit on the Info. Soc. (Nov 2005)

What might work best?

• Multi-stakeholder approach where power is shared but no one entity is in control.

(eg: government, industry, civil society, etc. )

• One model: “global financial architecture”

How can we conceptualize the Internet Governance “space”?

The Seven Layers of Communications Architecture

Thus: A “layered” model to Internet Governance…?

7 -- Application 6 -- Presentation5 -- Session4 -- Transport3 -- Network2 -- Data Link1 -- Physical

The Network Layers Model

Economic

Application

Presentation

Session

Transport

Network

Link

Physical

Political

You are here!

Popular t-shirt worn by Internet engineers at IETF meetings in the 1990s



This and the following two slides from: D. MacLean 2004



Yet it can still be cloudy!Source: Milton Mueller, 2004



Source: Tom Vest of Packet Clearing House, 2004.



The Geography of Internet Address Space Source: Martin Dodge and Narushige Shiode, 1998(From Atlas of Cyberspace)



IP address space allocation distribution by countryFrom: Jacques H.J. Bourgeois, Jacques Crémer, and Pierre Marsal, 2003.

Before we need our King Solomons and Tallyrands…

We need our Edward Tuftes and Martin Dodges!



The persistence of governance and law in the face of science and tech-nology…

US Customs formApollo 11 (1969)From: the moon

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