Stakeholders Must Look to Future Multistakeholder Internet Governance Discussions, Strickling Says
NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling emphasized the importance of future discussions around multistakeholder internet governance, including during the upcoming Internet Governance Forum in Guadalajara, Mexico. Internet governance is one of several issues set to come up during the IGF meeting, which…
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is set for Dec. 6-9. Discussions about the multistakeholder model took on greater importance in the wake of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority transition in early October (see 1609300065 and 1610030042), Strickling said during a U.K. Internet Governance Forum event. The model “is a diverse, multi-layered system that thrives only through the cooperation of many different parties, operating through consensus, in a bottom-up manner,” Strickling said in a prepared version of Thursday's speech. “Unequivocally, the success of IANA functions stewardship transition serves as a validation of that premise, and of our ongoing and unrelenting commitment to the multistakeholder model.” Stakeholders should build on the handoff's success to “tackle other internet policy challenges,” Strickling said. The multistakeholder approach has worked in the allocation of critical resources like IP addresses and domain names, “but can we bring stakeholders together to address some of these other thorny issues through the consensus decision-making that characterizes the multistakeholder approach? Can the multistakeholder approach help make progress on questions of data protection, software vulnerability research, artificial intelligence, and other emerging issues? I think it can.”