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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">George:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank you for this. This is a far more thoughtful piece than my post-midnight musings. I’ve only glanced through it, but many of the themes are consistent
with what I’ve seen and participated in, and tried to express. (No humming at ICANN, though – except on Music Night.) Seeing this, I did fail to recognize (at least) one essential part of a the working group and consensus process – the work of the “chair”
(really, more of a facilitator). The Resnick draft does a very good job of describing the function of the chair in managing consensus discussions so that they avoid tyranny of the majority, of the hypervocal, and/or the hyperinvolved, and “protect” minority
views from being drowned out or dismissed during the process. I’ve been fortunate enough to serve on ICANN WGs with some very good chairs, and it is a form of alchemy (and very hard, focused work).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Greg Shatan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> George Sadowsky [mailto:george.sadowsky@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 12, 2014 8:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Shatan, Gregory S.<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Naresh Ajwani; gurstein michael; discuss@1net.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [discuss] Will there be life on 1net after IANA is globalized? (:-)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It might be worth looking at Pete Resnick’s excellent IETF draft on what rough consensus means:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-resnick-on-consensus-02">https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-resnick-on-consensus-02</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some of the discussion refers explicitly to the importance and treatment of minority opinions. Although it is written clearly with a technical framework in mind, it is applicable to a broader set of considerations.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mar 12, 2014, at 2:30 AM, Shatan, Gregory S. <<a href="mailto:GShatan@ReedSmith.com">GShatan@ReedSmith.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Naresh:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Here are my thoughts on and understanding of the process.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I think the “protection” of first resort for any viewpoint is the consensus process itself. In a GNSO Working Group (WG), the process of exploration, deliberation,
persuasion and negotiation is fairly deliberate and painstaking. The consensus that emerges from the process is often not the position that any group or groups held coming into the WG, but rather a synthesis of views as a result of the process. The ideal
consensus result is full consensus, and most if not all parties in the consensus process need to move off their initial positions to build consensus (full or rough). All the parties in the WG participate in defining the consensus, whether they end up signing
on to it or not. So the goal of any group is to move the consensus toward one’s own position, while (ideally) moving one’s own position toward the emerging consensus. In a sense, the best protection for a potential “minority view” is not to end up as a
minority view, but rather to end up influencing the consensus so that it resembles that view to the extent possible, with the result that the consensus is thus acceptable to the group holding what might otherwise have been a minority view.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">if after the consensus process, a Consensus forms but there are still parties that disagree with the Consensus, they are entitled to submit a Minority View,
which becomes part of the Preliminary Report of the Working Group (WG), which is put out for public comment. Public comments would typically be submitted by stakeholders in the Minority View position and those who agree with the Minority View (as well as
comments from many other viewpoints). The WG will review and consider the comments, which may cause the WG to consider revising the consensus if the comments contain new facts or persuasive argument. The WG then produces a final report which is again put
up for public comment. The comments are again reviewed and changes may be made at this point as well. The final report is then submitted by the Working Group to the GNSO Council, which reviews the final report (including the minority view(s)) in considering
the recommendations made by the WG. The minority views might persuade the Council to reject or modify a recommendation. The recommendations approved by the GNSO Council are passed on to the ICANN Board, which will adopt the recommendations as policy unless
voted down by a supermajority vote.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">At this point, I don’t think it is an issue of “ensuring the rights of minorities.” The group holding the minority view may not be a “minority” in a sense
of the word other than that they supported the losing arguments. Any group can hold a “minority view.” For any given recommendation, the minority view might be held by the business community, IP interests, civil society, registrars or registries (or there
may be no minority view at all). If a group’s view is not adopted by the larger group as a policy recommendation after everything above, that’s basically the end of the story in terms of policy development (though as noted above, the view of the larger group
will likely have changed due to that party’s participation in the process). The next “protection” will be participating in implementation oversight to ensure that implementation does not depart from policy (at least not in a way that Is detrimental to that
group’s interests).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">As far as the question of “minority representation” goes, I am not entirely clear what you are referencing. At the beginning of the process there are no minorities,
in the sense of those holding views different from the majority – simply because no majority has really formed yet. In a sense, every stakeholder group is a minority of one. Certainly, there may be groups that are closer to each other in viewpoint, but they
may or may not form any kind of majority.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If what you are referring to are “minorities” in a geographic, national, cultural or ethnic sense, that’s a whole different set of questions and answers, that
really has little to do with the issue of holding (or potentially holding a “minority view” in the consensus process. This is not to dismiss the issue of underrepresentation in ICANN or any other entity, or to be blind to the idea that underrepresented groups
may have viewpoints that are underrepresented or not represented at all (even as “minority views”). Those are real issues – just not the same issue as how a party in a consensus process can make sure that the result of that process resembles their view as
closely as possible. It’s also worth noting that similar views may be held by groups or individuals with widely varied geographic, national, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, whether or not some might be considered “minorities” in some sense of the word and
others not. Indeed, one of the valuable results of the consensus process is to discuss and commingle viewpoints among disparate actors and to arrive at a greater understanding or ideally a common viewpoint at the end of the process.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Greg Shatan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Naresh Ajwani [<a href="mailto:ajwaninaresh@gmail.com">mailto:ajwaninaresh@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Shatan, Gregory S.<br>
<b>Cc:</b> George Sadowsky; michael gurstein; <a href="mailto:discuss@1net.org">discuss@1net.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [discuss] Will there be life on 1net after IANA is globalized? (:-)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Dear Greg,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>".......So, there is no such thing as a “veto” by any particular party – if they are in the opposition, they are entitled to submit a Minority View, but they are not entitled to stop a Consensus from being formed...."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Would you please let us know that how this process addresses minority representation?
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<p>U wud appreciate that democracy is not only about majority or so explained consensus but ensuring the rights of minorities too.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Regards & best wishes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Naresh Ajwani<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 11 Mar 2014 22:10, "Shatan, Gregory S." <<a href="mailto:GShatan@reedsmith.com">GShatan@reedsmith.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><snip></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And I’m not sure what a Mulstatkeholderist approach can contribute here. I don’t see that a “consensus”
position is either possible nor necessarily desirable—what kind of consensus position could a Google sign on to in the case I’ve just pointed. I for one wouldn’t particularly want the range of options to be considered in the political/policy forum to be subject
to a veto by Google as would presumably be required by a MSist approach with consensus outputs. Similarly even entering into the MSist context would to my mind be disempowering in an instance such as this given the depth of resources—human, financial, political/influential
which a Google could toss at the issue and which would in an enforced MSist (and regrettably it seems in the broader political contexts as well), be effectively and practically overwhelming.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><snip></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Michael:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Actually, your presumptions are incorrect. This is not how multistakeholderism and consensus actually
works, at least not within the ICANN GNSO. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">First, “consensus” in that context (among others) is actually what some others call “rough consensus.”
The GNSO operates under levels of consensus (termed Full Consensus (unanimity), Consensus (some opposition), Strong Support But Significant Opposition, and Divergence (no prevailing view)). So, there is no such thing as a “veto” by any particular party –
if they are in the opposition, they are entitled to submit a Minority View, but they are not entitled to stop a Consensus from being formed.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Second, the primary level on which multistakeholder consensus-building takes place is the “stakeholder
representative” level, not the self-interested individual level. While there can certainly be “self-interest” involved, individuals who look out for the needs of their employer rather than the stakeholders they represent tend to get “disciplined” by the process
(by other reps of the same stakeholder group, by the stakeholder group generally, and even by representatives of other stakeholder groups who are protecting the integrity of the process). Someone who is clearly advancing an entity position tends to get push-back.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Third, the multistakeholder process tends to blunt perceived advantages based on purported “depth
of resources.” When business, IP, ISP, registrar, registry, civil society, ALAC, nonprofit, etc., representatives get on a call or in a room, the process of stating positions, discussion, negotiation and attempts to develop consensus (and/or minority views)
is really quite equal – a civil society rep from Morocco has just much of an opportunity to shape the discussion as an ISP rep from Virginia. Resources (beyond travel budgets) really don’t get you all that much in the MS process. (They may get you more in
working around the MS process, which is an argument to strengthen MSism, not to weaken it.) Frankly, having been involved in ICANN for a few years, I think that there is little truth to the idea that private sector companies generally throw vast resources
at ICANN matters. Entities for which domain names and the domain name business are central may devote resources to ICANN matters, but for the private sector generally, this area gets little attention and few resources.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Given the above, the multistakeholder approach is actually incredibly
<u>empowering</u>. As a participant in a number of ICANN working groups, I’ve been incredibly impressed by the work ethic, intelligence, mutual respect, ability to air and influence views and consensus-<u>building
</u>energy that is the hallmark of multistakeholderism done well. The multistakeholder approach, in concert with transparency and accountability, actually acts a “check and balance” system, making it difficult for any one stakeholder group’s positions to dominate,
much less the positions of a single stakeholder. I think it’s the best hope for the voice of disparate groups to influence policy and practice.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I would urge you to familiarize yourself more with multistakeholderism in practice at ICANN (and
elsewhere) before you jump to conclusions about its application.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Greg Shatan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@1net.org" target="_blank">discuss-bounces@1net.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@1net.org" target="_blank">discuss-bounces@1net.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>michael gurstein<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 07, 2014 5:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'George Sadowsky'; <a href="mailto:discuss@1net.org" target="_blank">discuss@1net.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [discuss] Will there be life on 1net after IANA is globalized? (:-)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">George,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">A problem with this approach to the “social” is that it fails to recognize that many/most/all of
the issues which would fall into the “social” layer (and many of those associated with these in other layers as well) are essentially “political” issues i.e. ones where there are significant differences not simply of (technical or other) opinion (or which
could be easily resolvable through some sort of consensus building process). Rather they are issues where there is a distinct difference/conflict of values/norms/interests which ultimately have to do with power and who controls a situation sufficiently to
determine how rewards/benefits/outcomes are distributed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">More or less subtle attempts to “depoliticize” these issues is in fact an attempt to divert attention
away from the very real clash of interests in these areas. Is my digital identity something that belongs to me along with all of the data that accrues to that identity or is it a “profile” that belongs to Google where they can use that as a basis to slice
and dice all the attributable data and then sell it on as a means to manage/manipulate/market me in the digital marketplace? This isn’t a “technical” question (nor a “social” question whatever that could be) rather it is a “political” question which could
become the basis for mobilization, political organizing, political contestation (one can presume that Google et al will not want their “ownership” of my digital identity to be transferred back to me) and ultimately clashes of political opinion out of which
policy would emerge where the (monopoly) power of the State would of necessity be used to enforce the distribution/redistribution of benefits/determination of relative positions and so on. .
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And I’m not sure what a Mulstatkeholderist approach can contribute here. I don’t see that a “consensus”
position is either possible nor necessarily desirable—what kind of consensus position could a Google sign on to in the case I’ve just pointed. I for one wouldn’t particularly want the range of options to be considered in the political/policy forum to be subject
to a veto by Google as would presumably be required by a MSist approach with consensus outputs. Similarly even entering into the MSist context would to my mind be disempowering in an instance such as this given the depth of resources—human, financial, political/influential
which a Google could toss at the issue and which would in an enforced MSist (and regrettably it seems in the broader political contexts as well), be effectively and practically overwhelming.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@1net.org" target="_blank">discuss-bounces@1net.org</a> [<a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@1net.org" target="_blank">mailto:discuss-bounces@1net.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>George Sadowsky<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 07, 2014 10:37 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [discuss] Will there be life on 1net after IANA is globalized? (:-)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><u>Purpose: What topics in Internet governance should 1net focus upon?</u><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Discussion on this list has focused heavily on the future of IANA, as well as on human rights issues. Those are certainly appropriate topics for the Brazil meeting, but if 1net
is to have a longer life, then there may well be other topics included in Internet governance that do merit attention.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I’d like to talk about this more after introducing a couple of diagrams and some text from a publication forthcoming in I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society
(<a href="http://www.is-journal.org/" target="_blank">www.is-journal.org</a>) It is titled “Internet governance is out Shared Responsibility,” by Vint Cerf, {Patrick Ryan, and Max Senges. I take the following from a draft version of the paper, subject
to final edits. In my view, it’s an excellent paper and should be read by anyone involved in Internet governance discussions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Among other things, the authors propose a layering of issues in Internet governance according to their relative position between strictly technical and strictly social. A number
of such models have been proposed. One proposed earlier on this list by Brian Carpenter, and augmented by a set of his slides, was an extremely good and thorough exposition of this concept. ISOC has published something similar, using a different approach
to displaying the results. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The paper proposes adding a social layer to the normal stack of issues, as in the chart below. I believe that the specific issues listed are meant to be examples, because they
are certainly not exhaustive of the issues at any of the four layers. Of course, many problems in this space do not live exclusively in just one layer, but ‘bleed’ somewhat into adjacent layers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">"We provide this conceptualization in order to trigger discussion about which institutions and stakeholder groups should legitimately be involved in which Internet policy issues.
Put differently, we believe that it will be<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">beneficial to the operation of the whole online ecosystem if the mandates of institutions are mapped and clarified with regard to their relevance in steering Internet governance
practices and policymaking." <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">"Hence, Illustration 2 shows a schematic example of mapping of institutions with relevant mandates overlaid on the layers of Internet governance. Here we show the IGF is positioned
in the center as it has no decision-making mandate itself but is instead, it is positioned to facilitate and moderate said decision making to take place elsewhere. In Clark’s terminology, at the IGF, we’re separating the “tussles” in a forum where they can
be analyzed in workshops and discussion sessions and then brought back to the various other forums for decisions."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">This approach to defining shared responsibility for Internet governance is not new. ICANN has published its view of this, and a extraordinarily good and thorough presentation of
analysis of this type has been made by David Souter and is well worth reading. In the above display, national governments and their various agencies are totally missing, and that seems to be to be a fundamental flaw, but one that can be easily corrected.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><u>The space of Internet governance issues</u><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The 1net discussions until now have focused primarily upon Internet naming and numbering (the logical layer) on the one hand, and human rights issues with respect to the Internet
(the social layer). This perhaps appropriate given the announced focus of the Brazil meeting. However, the Brazil meeting is just one in a number of meetings, and the purple of 1net goes well beyond that meeting.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">However, Internet governance is much more than names and addresses. And in fact, in terms of stability of operations, the current use of names and addresses by Internet users to
actually do things using the Internet is working remarkably well. On the other had, most of the other examples in the first chart above, where the Internet is colliding with existing activities and changing the nature of processes, is not working nearly as
well as we would like. To be sure, the problems are more difficult, and require a different set of actors to solve, but that is no reason for not discussing them. In fact, there is every reason to address this set of issues in order to start to solve them.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Many of the issues in this layer depend locally upon adequate legislation and regulation that depends on a balance between freedom for and restrictions on behavior and actions,
both sides of the balance being supported by social goals. At the international level, cooperation requires a minimum of agreement regarding that balance so that international cooperation among nation governments can take place. What initiatives might make
it possible to achieve both appropriate structures at the national level and coordinated structures at the international level to make this happen. Do we need an UNCITRAL-type movement to work toward these goals? Among the issues affected are:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I suspect that most everyone on this list can expand it with their own issue of importance. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">These are areas where intensive national government involvement is absolutely essential. Where are these issues being discussed in a way that has the possibility of dramatically
improving these situations? Does the 1net list have any claim to, or responsibility for, addressing this area? It certainly is a part of Internet governance? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Bertrand de la Chapelle has been discussing the international dimension of these issues in his cross-boundary jurisdiction project, and he is raising really important issues and
providing insights into the nature of this problem. However, as much if not more attention needs to be paid to these issues at the national level. Where are national governments being faced with these issues as a part of their responsibilities. How can
other sectors assist in making this happen? Which other actors play a part in improving things, and is this happening. How can 1net comment meaningfully on these issues?<o:p></o:p></p>
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extensive discussion to date? Define this as problem no. 2, if you like, but its really a meta-problem. The real problems are the ones listed above.<o:p></o:p></p>
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