<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi folks. Some of you may be interested in my dissertation regarding the historical background of this stuff. </div><div><br></div><div>It can be found at </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/58805571/Launching-the-DNS-War-Dot-Com-Privatization-and-the-Rise-of-Global-Internet-Governance">http://www.scribd.com/doc/58805571/Launching-the-DNS-War-Dot-Com-Privatization-and-the-Rise-of-Global-Internet-Governance</a></div><div><br></div><div>FWIW, since then, I've put considerable effort into prototyping an online discourse venue that would leverage the ranked-choice system used in ICANN's at large Board member election in 2000, along with some liquid democracy techniques. I haven't succeeded in drumming up any practical interest yet, though I did engage with some folks
on the ICANN strategy panel not long ago. <a href="http://thegovlab.org/icann2/">http://thegovlab.org/icann2/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Craig Simon</div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="hr" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: none; height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" contenteditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> michael gurstein <gurstein@gmail.com>; 'John Curran' <jcurran@istaff.org> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> comptoir@cafedu.com; '1Net List' <discuss@1net.org> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, March 15, 2014 6:25 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [discuss] studying multistakeholder processes (was: Re: [governance] U.S. to Give Up Oversight of Web Policymaking Body)<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>
<br>(Subject line repair above:-)<br><br>Hi Michael,<br><br>On 03/15/2014 09:19 PM, michael gurstein wrote:<br>> <br>> A (preferably critical and independent) analysis of the MS experience with<br>> the IETF <br><br>I know there have been various postgrad (masters and PhD) studies<br>done of IETF decision making/consensus processes. I don't know the<br>details of outcomes off the top of my head but could track down<br>one or two if that helped. Ping me offlist if interested.<br><br>Personally, I've no idea if there a generalisable idea that<br>could be derived from that that could be called multistakeholderism<br>(which is a horrible term btw!) but I guess the work could inspire<br>folks. Or if similar studies have also been done with ICANN or<br>parts of the open-source community those might be useful as<br>examples of ways of doing stuff.<br><br>S.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>discuss mailing list<br><a
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