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OVERVIEW OF ICANN, ITU AND OTHER MAJOR PLAYERS – WHAT ARE ROLE FOR EACH

OVERVIEW OF ICANN, ITU AND OTHER MAJOR PLAYERS – WHAT ARE ROLE FOR EACH Roundtable Disscussion: Internet Governance and Regulation Dr. Andris Virtmanis Director ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND POST DEPARTMENT PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION Riga, 6 April 2005. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.

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OVERVIEW OF ICANN, ITU AND OTHER MAJOR PLAYERS – WHAT ARE ROLE FOR EACH

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  1. OVERVIEW OF ICANN, ITU AND OTHER MAJOR PLAYERS – WHAT ARE ROLE FOR EACH Roundtable Disscussion: Internet Governance and Regulation Dr. Andris Virtmanis Director ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND POST DEPARTMENT PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION Riga, 6 April 2005

  2. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION PRESENTATION OVERVIEW Internet governance – institutions involved Hot topics before 2nd round of WSIS National actualities

  3. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION • Internet governance – • institutions involved

  4. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION MAIN PLAYERS IN INTERNET NAMING AND ADDRESSING ITU WIPO ICANN EC DG Infosoc ISO GAC NRAs National Registries RIRs

  5. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION • ICANN • Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers • Took IANA administrative functions since 1998 • Responsibility together with national ccTLD Registries • for ensuring a stable, secure, open and easily • accessable Domain Name System • Mission: • to co-ordinate the Internet’s systems of TLD unique • identifiers; • to operate and evolute the root name server • system; • the policy development related to these technical • functions

  6. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION • ITU • International Telecommunications Union (specilized agency within theUN) • Operable since 1865 • Strong in technical standardization and international • regulation of ”clacssical” telecommunications • Previously weak in Internet governance • More active Participation since 1st phase of WSIS – • creation of a Working Group on Internet Governance • (WGIG) by UN Secretary_General • WSIS Plan of Action (Dec 2003) invites “Governments • to manage or supervise, as appropriate, their • respective country code top-level domain name”

  7. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION ISO International Standartization Organization Involved in standardization of ccTLDs : ccTLD means a domain in the top level of the global domain name system assigned according to a two-letter code based on the ISO 3166-1 standard “CODES FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF NAMES OF COUNTRIES AND THEIR SUBDIVISIONS” Example: .lv

  8. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization Among other responsibilities involved in protecting intellectual property rights across Internet So-called “WIPO II” process iniciated in 2000 connected with difficulties over registration of country names in .info Currently it is essential that WIPO II recommendations be accomplished well before any other new TLDs are introduced

  9. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION • GAC • Government Advisory Committee at ICANN • Consultative organization formed from governmental • representatives for co-operation with ICANN and other • actors • The reason to create GAC – every government (or public • authority) is encouraged to ensure that the ccTLD is • being administered in the public interest, within the • framework of its national public policy and relavent • laws and regulations • One of achievements: PRINCIPLES FOR THE • ADMINISTRATION OF COUNTRY CODE TOP LEVEL • DOMAINS (currently to be updated to include delegation • and recognition of ccTLD Registries)

  10. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION RIRs Regional Internet Registries (also members of NRO – The Number Resource Organization) The development and execution of address allocation principles are organised on a regional level by following Registries (funded and governed by over 8000 organisations worldwide): APNIC – Asia-Pacific region ARIN – Northern America, parts of Caribbean, and continental Africa south to the equator LACNIC – Latin America and parts of Caribbean RIPE NCC – Europe, Middle East, Central Asia and continental Africa north to the equator AfriNIC - to be Registry for Africa (new)

  11. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION • Hot topics before 2nd • round of WSIS

  12. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION NEW IPv6 ADDRESS SPACE DISTRIBUTION PRINCIPLES Proposed by ITU memorandum “ITU and Internet governance”(H.Zhao, Director of ITU TSB, 21 October 2004) – address space distributionprinciplesbased solely on national authorities Reasons: “some developing countrieshave raised issues regarding IP address allocation, lack of accountability , others….” Negative responses (worries) so-far: RIRs & NRO (Number Resource Organization) ETNO (European Telecommunications Operators’ Association)

  13. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION • NRO’s SWOT ANALYSIS OF THE ITU PROPOSAL • Strenghts • RIR system is well-established self regulation model • Weaknesses • “there is a lack of accountability especially when it comes to the administration of IP addresses” • Opportunities • “it would seem opportune to develop principles for a broad framework of accountability” • Threats • “division of the Internet into more than one net” • “problem of spam, overloading the Internet, serious threat to DNS system” • “lack of transition from IPv4 to IPv6 so IP addresses become a scarce resource in certain parts of world”

  14. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION • National actualities

  15. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION FACT: On 1 March 2005 the Latvian Government accepted as completed main provisions of the „Concept of establishment of Internet network service provider’s registration and state supervision system” from2001 CONSEQUENCIES: 1) Authorization of ISPs by PUC 2) Involvement of the PUC in supervision of ccTLD

  16. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION • TRANSPOSITION OF THE NEW FRAMEWORK IN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - 1 • Electronic Communication Law in force in Latvia from 1 st December 2004 • According to NRF Internet service provision is included in definition of electronic communication services • Dilemma for European NRAs – to regulate or not to regulate VoIP because ISP not previously regulated? • Latvian case – voice including VoIP already regulated independently of technology

  17. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION • TRANSPOSITION OF THE NEW FRAMEWORK IN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - 2 • Common Statement for VoIP regulatory approaches • of European Regulators Group (ERG) from 11 • February 2005 promoting internet-based services as • well as estabishing requirements to introduce access • to 112 emergency numbers and number portability • services • In Latvia already since 2001 Law on • Telecommunications public network operators • requesting E.164 numbers are obliged to provide • access to emergency numbers & number portability • services

  18. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION • TRANSPOSITION OF THE NEW FRAMEWORK IN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - 3 • Latvian ECL defines ccTLD .lvas limited (scarce) resource like radio frequencies and phone numbers • Delegation in ECL of rights to PUC to issue regulation for registration of ccTLD • But – delegation of rights to operate national ccTLD Registry not yet decided & not in line with GAC Principles on ccTLD • Vision – to ammend the ECL allowing the PUC (?) to elaborate general requirments for Registry and Government (CoM) to delegate rights to operate the Registry

  19. Thank you much for attention !andris.virtmanis@sprk.gov.lv

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