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Internet Governance
Stephen M. Ryan, Esq.
MCDERMOTT, WILL & EMERY
(202) 756-8333
[email protected]
The Current Successful Internet Governance
Model
• Current model primarily relies on nongovernmental organizations, e.g.
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NANOG/NOGs for operational standards
IETF for protocol standards
ICANN for DNS
ARIN/other RIRs for IP resource policy
ISOC and others for outreach
• Some countries prefer a model that is based on
government to government negotiation and
control, and firm government control of internal
Internet access.
• U.S. Government opposes these efforts, but with
a weakened voice
North American Interests In Global
Policy and Governance Debate
• Most North Americans are very
comfortable with NGO governance
model and skeptical of control of Internet
by any international government agency
• Profound civil liberties issues of Internet
controlled by authoritarian governments,
e.g.:
– Attack on Estonia
– Burma crackdown
– Internal control of Internet by many countries
North American Interests In Global Policy And
Governance Debate, Continued
• We cannot tell China, Cuba, Iran, North
Korea, Saudi Arabia, etc. that they must
permit Internet access to their citizens; but
we also cannot permit them to tell us how to
ration our citizen’s access
Upcoming Events and Policies Require Law
Enforcement Attention
• Upcoming Events Will Impact The Law
Enforcement Community:
 Law Enforcement has a continued need for an
informative, accurate Whois it can access on a bulk
or individual basis, “24x7,” may conflict with other
public policies
 Continued policy debate in each sovereign
government regarding the proper balance
between business needs of an ISP, individuals need
for privacy, versus law enforcement and civil law
need for disclosed addressing data
International Telecommunication
Union (ITU)
• WTPF held by the ITU
• United Nations ( ) agency for information and
communication technologies (
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• Comprised of 193 member states
• Participation limited to
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Member States
ITU Sector Members
Associates
Academia
• Creates globally recognized treaties
ITU Sectors
• Radiocommunication (ITU-R)
 Coordinates radiocommunication services,
radio-frequency spectrum, and satellite orbits
• Telecommunication Standardization
(ITU-T)
 Produces standards for operation of ICT networks
• Telecommunication Development (ITU-D)
 Focuses on capacity building to increase access to
infrastructure and ICT services worldwide
Current Environment
• Let’s take a look at the…
 Internet Governance Forum ( )
 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference
 World Telecommunication
Development Conference (
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ITU Plenipotentiary Conference
• Busan, Korea, 20 Oct. – 7 Nov. 2014
• To set ITU's general policies
 Four-year strategic and financial plans
 Elect officials
 Set principles for provision & operation of
international telecommunications
• Participation limited
WTDC 2014
• ITU World Telecommunication
Development Conference(
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• Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, 31 Mar. - 11 Apr.
2014
• To prepare an action plan for the ITU
Development sector for next 4 years
 6 Regional Preparatory meetings in 2013
• Participation open to ITU-D members