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

1. Multi-stakeholder Governance
Dr. Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
ocl@gih.com
ISOC England Chapter Delegate
ALAC Chairman at ICANN
Presentation in Kyiv, Ukraine, 18 February 2011

2. 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

3. 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

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

5. Multi-stakeholder standards
Source: http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/docs/internetmodel.pdf

6. Multi-stakeholder policy
Source: http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/docs/internetmodel.pdf

7. Multi-stakeholder naming
Source: http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/docs/internetmodel.pdf

8. 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

9. ICANN functions
Generic Top Level Domains
•.COM
•.ORG
•.NET
•Etc. 192.168.100.102
123.123.123.123
Etc.
Country Code Top Level
Domains
•.DE
•.UK
•.CN
•.EG
•Etc. Source: http://www.icann.org/presentations/igf-internet-ecosystem-beckstrom-15nov09-en.ppt

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

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

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

13. Internationalized Domain Names

14. 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

15. 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

16. Internet is changing
the business world

17. Internet is changing the world
Cost: $90 Million for 5 days (Source: OECD)

18. 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/

19. Source: http://www.connectedkingdom.co.uk/
Internet is changing the business world

20. Source: http://www.connectedkingdom.co.uk/
Internet is changing the business world

21. 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.

22. So what should you avoid?

23. Thank you !
Questions? Comments? Suggestions?
Olivier Crépin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com>