What is Governance?
Well the concept of
governance is evolving and changing; as societies became more advance the
mechanism of governance became more advanced. But as a short we can define governance
as stablishing of policies and continuous monitoring of their proper implementation
by the members of the governing bodies.
Participation, Transparency,
Responsiveness, Consensus Orientation or understanding, and accountability are
the most important aspects for the good governance.
Part2: Who are the Governing
bodies of the Internet?
Who are the Governing bodies
of the Internet?
Before answering to this
question lets clarify the term “Stakeholder” and then see what is the “Multi stakeholder
model” that you may face both of these terms repeatedly while reading articles
about the Internet Governance.
According to the icannwiki.com
a stakeholder refers to an individual, group or organization that has a direct or
indirect interest or stake in a particular organization; that is, a given
action has the ability to influence the overall organization’s actions,
decisions and policies to achieve results. While Multistakeholder Model is an
organizational framework or structure which adopts the multistakeholder process
of governance or policy making, which aims to bring together the primary
stakeholders such as businesses, civil society, governments, research
institutions and non-government organizations to cooperate and participate in
the dialogue, decision making and implementation of solutions to common
problems or goals.
Ok now let’s answer the
question that who are the governing bodies of the Internet?
Well; Internet is not
centrally governed by any Agency, Company, Government or Person, but by several
bodies across the globe which are as follows.
Internet Governance Forum
(IGF): anchored by the United Nations, the IGF is a multi-stakeholder open
forum for policy dialogue on issues related to the Internet Governance. It was
formally announced by the United Nations Secretary-General in July 2006 and has
held an annual meeting since then.
Internet Architecture Board
(IAB): the Internet configuration control board was created by the United
States Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency during
1997 is the body that eventually became the Internet Advisory Board during September,
1984, and then the Internet Activities board during May, 1986 and finally became
the Internet Architecture Board, under ISOC, during January, 1992. It is a committee
charged with oversight of the technical and engineering development of the
Internet by the Internet Society (ISOC) that oversees the technical and
engineering development of the IETF and the IRTF.
Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN): Is a nonprofit organization that is responsible
for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to
the namespaces on the Internet, IP addresses and Regional Registries.
Regional Internet
Registries: There are five regional registries that manage the allocation and
registration of the internet number resource;
Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)
Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF): Develops and promotes a wide range of Internet standards dealing
in particular with standards of the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).
Internet Research Task Force
(IRTF): Promotes research of the evolution of the internet creating long term
research groups working on topics related to Internet Protocols, applications,
architecture and technology.
International Organization
for Standardization (ISO 3166): is an international standard body that Defines
standards
World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C): is the main International standards organization for World Wide Web that
Creates Standards for the World Wide Web that enables open platform
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