[arin-announce] Bali IGF Concludes with Renewed Support for Multistakeholder Cooperation

[ARIN]

Last week ARIN, along with the other Regional Internet Registries 
(RIRs), ICANN, the Internet Society and others from the technical 
community participated in the 8th Internet Governance Forum held in 
Bali, Indonesia.

This year's theme, "Building Bridges – Enhancing Multistakeholder 
Cooperation for Growth and Sustainable Development", was reflected in 
many workshop discussions.  Many workshops focused on defining the term 
Multistakeholder and what multistakeholderism looks like in practice. 
One definition offered by Drs. Mark Raymond and Laura DeNardis, CIGI, in 
their paper "Thinking Clearly about Multistakeholder Internet 
Governance", suggests that multistakeholderism should be looked at with 
a view towards how it measures up in openness.  They detailed different 
aspects of openness; participatory openness, informational openness, and 
implementational openness in their paper which will be available later 
this year.

Another major focus area was how to develop processes that ensure the 
parties most impacted by specific Internet-related policy decisions have 
a voice in determining a result that keeps the Internet open, available, 
flexible and scalable.

Collectively as the Number Resource Organization (NRO), the RIRs hosted 
a booth to provide educational materials on IPv6 and the open and 
transparent community policy development process facilitated by each 
RIR. The NRO sponsored two workshops, one on "IPv4 Markets and Resource 
Transfers" and a second on "The Importance of Regional Coordination in 
Internet Governance".

There was some discussion and support for the technical community's 
recent Montevideo Statement 
(http://www.nro.net/news/montevideo-statement-on-the-future-of-internet-cooperation). 
A new proposal was introduced during the week by Brazil to host a Summit 
meeting in May 2014 where multistakeholder discussions will work toward 
launching a process that would achieve principles and norms to guide the 
use and operation of the Internet.

AFRINIC COO Anne-Rachel Inne, in closing ceremony remarks on behalf of 
the technical community, commented, "We hope that it will be possible to 
maintain the open and collaborative spirit of the Internet cooperation 
which we witnessed at the Bali IGF meeting – it is needed for the 
further evolution of Internet governance in all discussions going 
forward." She went on to call on the United Nations to help efforts to 
strengthen the IGF Secretariat and to find financial support to 
safeguard these important annual meetings.

To get a fuller appreciation of all that transpired, we'd like to call 
your attention to the following items:

     * IGF Chairman's summary
	http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/press
     * Transcripts and videos of many sessions
	http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/igf-2013-transcripts
	http://www.youtube.com/user/igf/videos
     * Full remarks from Anne-Rachel Inne
	http://www.nro.net/news/2013-internet-governance-forum-closing-remarks

Regards,
Communications and Member Services
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)