Transcript presented - Internet Society of Armenia

Armenia and Multistakeholder Model of
Internet Governance
Dr. Grigori Saghyan, ISOC AM Vice-President
Lianna Galstyan,
ISOC AM Board Member
Proposed IGF Model of Armenia
WCIT 2012 conference - Armenia against the transfer of
some Internet Related Issues control to ITU.
Alternative for local Internet Governance - to create a
local Permanent Internet Governance Committee with
stakeholders of
• Government
• Private Sector
• NGOs
• Technical Community/Academia
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Proposed IGF Model of Armenia
Proposal agreed with - NGOs, Business, Academia.
Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC)
agreed this with all Governmental bodies and the office
of the President of RA.
MTC presented proposal to the Government for
ratification.
Waiting for it to be approved.
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Proposed IGF Model of Armenia
The core idea is the permanent function of this body.
The suggested members:
• The Ministry of Transport and Communications
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• The National Academy of Sciences
• The Radio and TV commission
• The Internet Society
• The Association of Mass Media
• The Union of Employers
• The Union of IT Enterprises
• A representative from the office of Ombudsman.
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Proposed IGF Model of Armenia
The status of this body will be inter-department
commission.
Head will be the
Communications.
Minister
of
Transport
and
Secretariat is planned to be the Internet Society of
Armenia which will provide a full transparency.
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Proposed IGF Model of Armenia
The proposed IG principles are as follows:
• Providing people with Internet access
• The system of Domain Names
• Support of DNSSEC distribution
• IPv6 Distribution
• Human Rights Protection in Internet
• Privacy protection and Identification
• Innovations
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• Protection of Intellectual Property
• Support of Information dissemination on the basis of
open license
• Establishment of local Exchange Centers of Internet traffic
• Traffic routing
• Security
• Open standards
• Child Online Protection
• Support .հայ IDN registration and Armenian content
• Network neutrality
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Network Neutrality details
• All computer ports and internet protocols are open.
• Any information source and destination with any
content in internet is transparently accessible.
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• No filtering, except for the following cases:
- Law requirement or Court decision
- end-user consent
- ensuring the robustness and integrity of the operator's
network with the mandatory end-user notice
- preventing the overloading of operator's network, all
protocols necessarily considered as equal
- protecting users from virus or hacker activity, DDoS
attacks, protecting against cyber crime in exceptional
circumstances apply traffic filtering.
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Certain Facts - NTIA Announcement
March 14, 2014 - NTIA announced its intent to
transition key Internet domain name functions to the
global multistakeholder community.
Transition proposal must have broad community
support and address the following four principles:
• Support and enhance the multistakeholder model;
• Maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the
Internet DNS;
• Meet the needs and expectation of the global
customers and partners of the IANA services;
• Maintain the openness of the Internet.
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Certain Facts - NTIA Announcement
NTIA will not accept a proposal that replaces the NTIA
role with a government-led or an inter-governmental
organization solution.
Is it realistic to create or modify an existing international
authoritative structure or NTIA tries to identify the real
candidates able to carry out the IANA stewardship?
We’ll see it in 2015.
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IANA transition - ICANN
ICANN formally is a US Corporation though its Global
Hubs and At-Large Structures work to assign a global
structure image.
ALSs can be more than one within a country.
Multistakeholderism
representation.
is
provided
by
GAC
.
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IANA transition - ISOC
ISOC formally is a US registered organization.
ISOC Chapters have ambivalent status - some of them
are independent local NGOs, others are ISOC affiliated
structures.
ISOC may have more than one Chapter in a country,
which creates a country representation problem.
ISOC Chapters being an US subsidiary can be
considered as a foreign agent in some countries.
No direct Government inclusion in ISOC as a part of
Multistakeholder model.
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IANA transition - ITU
ITU is an Inter-Governmental Organization, founded on
a Multi-Lateral Agreement basis.
Each of 194 countries has 1 vote.
Sector Members have no direct influence on voting
procedure.
UN itself is also an Inter-Governmental Structure.
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IANA transition - IGF
IGF is the closest to the multistakeholder model but it
has no clear organizational structure, it is not a
permanent body and is managed by the UN.
The proposed solution may be either the re-structuring
of the existing organizations or the creation of a new
body.
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Proposed IGF Model of Armenia
for Global Solution
Our suggestion is to create local permanent IGF body
in all countries and with their participation to
establish an association of independent local IGFs.
Red cross is a good example of such association.
In order to preserve the control of decision-making
process, some developed countries may have a right
of veto.
UN Security Council is an example of such right.
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Thank You!
Dr. Grigori Saghyan – ISOC AM Vice-President, [email protected]
Lianna Galstyan - ISOC AM Board Member, [email protected]