[cooperation-wg] Report from Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG)

Kieren’s write-up - where you will also find pointers - is here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/21/how_to_save_the_open_internet/

Nibbles:

<< The internet could go one of three paths in the next decade, according to an elite group of policymakers: open and global; unequal and uneven; or dangerous and broken.

And the path to righteousness? It's contained in the recommendations of the 140-page report that the grandly named Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG) has spent two years working on and released Tuesday. >>


<< There are "significant barriers" to real engagement that "discourage" people. And the report suggests that "seasoned participants from the technical community may need to adjust their usual blunt approach" in order to bring in others.

It even goes so far as to suggest that the current approach taken by such groups as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Internet Society (ISOC) and so on "may not always be sustainable, particularly as the pioneers who established and remain key supporters of these bodies disappear from the scene."

Which is a polite way of saying that the old boys network in many of the internet organizations is slowly killing them. >>