The U.S. role in global internet governance

Open for Expansion: US Policy and the Purpose for the Internet in the Post-Cold War Era

“…How to govern those functions remains a hotly contested subject among Internet governance stakeholders where some advocate for the status quo and others for greater multilateralism to include a lessor role for states or multilateralism to include a greater role for states (Mueller , ; Cogburn et al. ; Mueller, Mathiason and Klein ; Clunan ; Deibert, Palfrey, Rohozinski and Zittrain ). Global Internet governance remains a hotly contested issue.…”

“…Milner and Tingley note that, “The legitimacy of US foreign policy…depends on following the norm of multilateralism.” The assessment of some US Internet governance policy lacks legitimacy precisely because US Internet governance policy is committed to multistakeholderism. Cogburn et al., for example, argue that, “The United States must accept the need for change and actively put forward viable ideas for the internationalization of its oversight and supervision functions” (:14). Cukier () is less demanding advocating that US policymakers share oversight of core Internet technologies and that the United States may actually gain more by doing so.…”

“…Beginning with the first annual United Nations–sponsored World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) conference in 2003, advocates for greater Internet governance multilateralism argue that “equal access to and participation in communications infrastructure, which requires redistributed resources and other remedies” is stymied by the present state‐centric global Internet governance structure (Pickard :119; also see Breit ; Cogburn et al. ; Cukier ; Eriksson and Giacomello ; Mathiason ; Mueller , ; Singh ). Calls for reduced US involvement in global governance of the Internet have reached a crescendo where US Internet governance policy has been characterized as a threat to the Internet (Mueller ).…”

Analyzing Trends and Topics in Internet Governance and Cybersecurity Debates Found in Twelve Years of IGF Transcripts

“…As one example of the interest in this subject, Debates and issues related to Internet Governance dominated the first phase of WSIS held in Geneva from 10-12 December 2003, along with development issues such as financing, infrastructure, and human capacity building [6] [12]. At the conclusion of WSIS Tunis, the United Nations launched the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), giving it an initial five-year mandate, and renewing it for another ten years in 2010.…”

Gouverner le HTML

“…Nous nous situons dans la ligne de ceux qui considèrent que le code informatique joue un rôle crucial en société (Lessig, 1999 ;Marino, 2006) et qu'il est par conséquent nécessaire d'étudier les forces qui le « gouvernent » (Mackenzie et Vurdubakis, 2011, p. 6). Nous nous plaçons également dans la ligne des travaux consacrés à la gouvernance d'Internet, à ceci près que notre analyse n'a pas lieu au niveau des états ou des organisations internationales exerçant leur pouvoir en signant des traités et en promulguant des lois (Cogburn et al, 2005 ;Cogburn et al, 2008 ;Weber, 2010). Elle n'a pas non plus lieu au niveau des tribunaux et des instances de régulation exerçant leur pouvoir en interprétant lesdites lois et en faisant exécuter les sentences (Conseil de l'Europe, 2015).…”