Strickling to IGF Participants: 'Build' on IANA Transition Experience With Multistakeholderism
NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling urged Internet Governance Forum participants Wednesday to “build” on the experience of advancing the multistakeholder governance model exhibited in the recently completed Internet Assigned Numbers Authority transition “and find opportunities to apply the model to those…
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issues where it has the best chance to succeed.” The IGF is meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico, through Friday. There's “work to do to demonstrate to stakeholders everywhere, but especially in developing countries, how they can utilize this tool to solve technical policy challenges better than top-down regulatory approaches offered by governmental organizations like the ITU,” Strickling said in prepared remarks. The multistakeholder process “does not guarantee that everyone will be satisfied with the outcome,” Strickling said. “But it is critical to preserving this model of Internet governance that all parties respect and work through the process and accept the outcome once a decision is reached. It is clear that we have more work to do on this front.” Even ICANN during the planning for the IANA oversight spinoff was “not immune to detractors who attempt to undermine the process after an outcome has been achieved,” Strickling said. “After the community completed the IANA transition plan, there were those who tried unsuccessfully to delay or block the transition at the eleventh hour. Of course, there will always be those who are not happy with the outcome. But if you believe in the process, you must respect the process by bringing your concerns or ideas forward before stakeholders come to a consensus decision -- not after.”