Multi-stakeholder governance

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Multi-stakeholder Governance Dr. Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond [email protected] ISOC England Chapter Delegate ALAC Chairman at ICANN Presentation in Kyiv, Ukraine, 18 February 2011

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Presentation made at the Internet and Democracy Conference in Kiev, Ukraine, 18 February 2011. My talk focuses on: - what is a multi-stakeholder governance process? - what is the Internet model? - what is ICANN? - how is it structured? - how is it multi-stakeholder bottom-up? - Structure of GNSO - Structure of At-Large - The End-User principle (no filtering) - The Internet is changing the world of business - The Internet is changing the world - The Internet economic weight on GDP - how do you create a business climate which will take advantage of the Internet? - Join multi-stakeholder governance processes at ICANN - An Internet Kill Switch is a Kill Switch for your economy

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Multi-stakeholder Governance

Dr. Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond

[email protected]

ISOC England Chapter Delegate

ALAC Chairman at ICANN

Presentation in Kyiv, Ukraine, 18 February 2011

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The Internet

� Technology developed since the 1960s

� Technical specifications:� Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

� Multi-stakeholder development

� Distributed system� Network of networks

� No single owner of the Internet

� Dynamic Naming System (DNS) since 1980s� A hierarchy of name servers with one single Root

� Fully distributed around the world

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What is Multi-stakeholder

� An environment where decisions are taken in concertation with:� Governments

� Businesses

� Civil Society

� Individual users

� Any other stakeholder not covered by the above

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Source: http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/docs/internetmodel.pdf

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Multi-stakeholder standards

Source: http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/docs/internetmodel.pdf

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Multi-stakeholder policy

Source: http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/docs/internetmodel.pdf

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Multi-stakeholder naming

Source: http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/docs/internetmodel.pdf

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ICANN

� International Corporation for Addresses, Names and Numbers

� Founded in 1998

� Not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers:

� Domain Names

� IP Addresses

� Took over these functions from the US Government

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ICANN functions

Generic Top Level Domains•.COM•.ORG•.NET•Etc.

Country Code Top Level Domains•.DE•.UK•.CN•.EG•Etc.

192.168.100.102123.123.123.123Etc.

Source: http://www.icann.org/presentations/igf-internet-ecosystem-beckstrom-15nov09-en.ppt

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Source: http://www.icann.org/en/about/

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Source: http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/presentation-policy-development-20may10-en.pdf

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Source: http://www.atlarge.icann.org/orgchart

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Internationalized Domain Names

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The End-User principle

� Any type of traffic is allowed� No filtering

� The end users have the choice of what services they want

� Champion for innovation� Imagine a service, design it and offer it

� No need to obtain a license� No need to apply for permission

� The smallest start-up company could become very successful worldwide

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Internet is changing the business world

� New business models� Google

� Amazon.com

� Skype (development in Estonia)

� iTunes

� youTube

� Open Source Software

� New community spaces� Facebook (500+ million users)

� MySpace

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Internet is changingthe business world

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Internet is changing the world

Cost: $90 Million for 5 days (Source: OECD)

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Internet is changing the business world

� A recent Boston Consulting Group report commissioned by Google estimated the United Kingdom’s Internet economy:� is worth £100 billion a year,

� is growing at 10% a year, and

� directly employs 250,000 people.

� 7.2% of UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

� Source: http://www.connectedkingdom.co.uk/

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Internet is changing the business world

Source: http://www.connectedkingdom.co.uk/

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Internet is changing the business world

Source: http://www.connectedkingdom.co.uk/

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So what needs to be done?

� The Internet Train is here. Do not miss it.

� It will continue to grow and if you are not ready, business will go elsewhere

� Get ready for IPv6 – the next network addressing

� Get ready for new technologies and promote them

� Engage in multi-stakeholder processes: ICANN, IETF, W3C etc.

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So what should you avoid?

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Thank you !

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

Olivier Crépin-Leblond <[email protected]>