Focus of the plenary

NTIA-RFC. European recommendation to US DoC about future of ICANN and IANA. What is meant by multistakeholder governance of the internet? What are the respective roles of the different stakeholders? Is the business sector able to take fully responsibility of the well-functioning of the Internet? What would be an appropriate form of regulation for the management of the critical internet resources? On what fundamental values and principles should this be based? Is there a “European common view” on this?
 

 
Format of the session

Interactive with interventions from the floor after each of the following three topics have been discussed by the panel:

1. In attempting to discuss "the post-JPA phase" two weeks before the expiration of the JPA . we´ll face a certain difficulty because presumably even those who know the the shape of things to come may not be at liberty to explain it in detail.  

2. Matters that are on the IG agenda regardless, whatever happens to the JPA: accountability - both ex ante and ex post -, the role of all stakeholders including governments, and the impact of the growth and globalization of the internet.