mapping internet governance by kenneth neil cukier the economist
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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)
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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?
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This and the following two slides from Diplo Foundation, 2004.
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This sucks!
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
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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
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This and the following two slides from: D. MacLean 2004
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Yet it can still be cloudy!Source: Milton Mueller, 2004
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Source: Tom Vest of Packet Clearing House, 2004.
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The Geography of Internet Address Space Source: Martin Dodge and Narushige Shiode, 1998(From Atlas of Cyberspace)
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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!
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The persistence of governance and law in the face of science and tech-nology…
US Customs formApollo 11 (1969)From: the moon
