Comments on: Who is ICANN and where does it fit with Internet governance? http://blog.icann.org/2007/02/who-is-icann-and-where-does-it-fit-with-internet-governance/ Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:42:27 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chrissy http://blog.icann.org/2007/02/who-is-icann-and-where-does-it-fit-with-internet-governance/comment-page-1/#comment-10270 Chrissy Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:15:28 +0000 http://blog.icann.org/?p=29#comment-10270 <a href="http://plentyofthings.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Plenty</a> of interesting <a href="http://stuffbychrissy.googlepages.com/blogposts" rel="nofollow">stuff</a> on this blog. Plenty of interesting stuff on this blog.

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]]> By: Veni Markovski http://blog.icann.org/2007/02/who-is-icann-and-where-does-it-fit-with-internet-governance/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Veni Markovski Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:31:14 +0000 http://blog.icann.org/?p=29#comment-103 Kieren, The debate around ICANN is an ongoing process, and I don't see it ending any time soon. Majority of the "usual" people (those who come regularly to meetings around the IGF/WSIS/ICANN) already have an opinion about it, and there is no way to change that. People who come to the IGF and other related meetings, who ask questions, who try to understand what actually ICANN does, and how the Internet works, they are in the minority. I've always been suggesting that before we deal with the global, big problems, we should try to see what solutions we have in our own houses - e.g. in each and every country. Of course, it's easy for me to talk like that, as Bulgaria has been giving a very positive example since 1999. Example, which shows that when the government works in close coordination and cooperation with the private sector, the users' associations, and the civil society, only then the results achieved are positive. Bulgaria has solved that by law - in the last two Telecommunications Acts there are special provisions about DNS/IP addresses. Basically this solution, suggested by the Internet Society of Bulgaria, plus actions of several Bulgarian governments in a row made it possible that we moved rapidly forward - from having only 76000 users in 1999 - 1 % of the population - to having today more than 2.5 mln - more than 30 % of all people above age 15. From having only analog dial-up access, today hundreds of Internet Service Providers offer high-speed (where high is 100 Mbps) Internet access. When we talk about the successful ways to deal with the Internet problems (and they are not really the internet "governance" issue), the easiest thing to do is to take a look at the successful models. Only when we solved the problems, only then we started the discussions around the Internet governance. That allowed Bulgaria to be on the cutting edge of policy making, with lots of experience to share. And it's not by an accident, that we have been piloting projects in South Eastern Europe on policy making, and other countries follow our example. Perhaps some of the statements of the government of Bulgaria during the WSIS PrepComs would be a good starting point for the readers. Here's one, but there are more on line: http://www.wgig.org/docs/Bulgaria.doc Kieren,
The debate around ICANN is an ongoing process, and I don’t see it ending any time soon. Majority of the “usual” people (those who come regularly to meetings around the IGF/WSIS/ICANN) already have an opinion about it, and there is no way to change that. People who come to the IGF and other related meetings, who ask questions, who try to understand what actually ICANN does, and how the Internet works, they are in the minority.
I’ve always been suggesting that before we deal with the global, big problems, we should try to see what solutions we have in our own houses – e.g. in each and every country.
Of course, it’s easy for me to talk like that, as Bulgaria has been giving a very positive example since 1999. Example, which shows that when the government works in close coordination and cooperation with the private sector, the users’ associations, and the civil society, only then the results achieved are positive. Bulgaria has solved that by law – in the last two Telecommunications Acts there are special provisions about DNS/IP addresses.
Basically this solution, suggested by the Internet Society of Bulgaria, plus actions of several Bulgarian governments in a row made it possible that we moved rapidly forward – from having only 76000 users in 1999 – 1 % of the population – to having today more than 2.5 mln – more than 30 % of all people above age 15. From having only analog dial-up access, today hundreds of Internet Service Providers offer high-speed (where high is 100 Mbps) Internet access.

When we talk about the successful ways to deal with the Internet problems (and they are not really the internet “governance” issue), the easiest thing to do is to take a look at the successful models. Only when we solved the problems, only then we started the discussions around the Internet governance. That allowed Bulgaria to be on the cutting edge of policy making, with lots of experience to share. And it’s not by an accident, that we have been piloting projects in South Eastern Europe on policy making, and other countries follow our example.
Perhaps some of the statements of the government of Bulgaria during the WSIS PrepComs would be a good starting point for the readers. Here’s one, but there are more on line: http://www.wgig.org/docs/Bulgaria.doc

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