<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">All,<div><br></div><div>I think what Avri is saying is quite sensible. Multistakeholderism is as much a principle as it is a model, and for myself, I summarize it by thinking that those who are materially affected by a set of decisions should at least be heard and generally participate in making them. ICANN displays a specific instantiation of those principles or that model (whichever wording that you prefer).<div><br></div><div>Avri�s comments lead me to think of the complexity of the Internet ecosystem that currently exists. Laura DeNardis has done us all a favor by pointing out how important and useful it is to disaggregate what is meant by Internet governance, and to note that there were not only many, many actors involved, but that different processes may perform best using forms of governance, or management, or cooperation that are quite specific to those processes. Here is her chart:</div><div> </div><div><div></div></div></div></body></html>