While Wolfgang's breakdown is a nice breakdown for multistakeholder models, the bigger question lurking in the background is:

 "Is there Internet Governance outside the multistakeholder model?"

Looking at the Internet from an economist's perspective, it is a terrain of increasingly differentiated products and processes. One would expect vested interests and special interest groups to split off the parts of Internet governance of key interest to them and address those interests in what they view as the most favorable policy venues. The history of the past 70 years suggests that special interests with power (a.k.a. governments and big business) press their interests in multinational venues, and increasingly in multilateral trade agreements that have little in common with the trade agreements of 50 years ago. Those venues focus on policy issues like intellectual property and such...with Internet governance a rising item on those agendas. One might expect ICANN's remit to be more clearly, and tightly, defined as this process unfolds, but as it unfolds all of us will have to be active as stakeholders in a wider array of Internet governance activities if an open and free Internet is to be sustained. 

Sam L.

On 9/22/2016 1:02 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
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Avri: 
"..there is no multistakeholder model without governments,...."

Wolfgang:
I see four models
1. ICANN model (with governments in an advisory capacity)
2. WSIS model (with non-governmental stakeholders in a consultation process)
3. IGF model (all stakeholders on equal footing with no decision making capacity)
4. NetMundial model (all stakeholders on equal footing with limited decision making capacity)

RIRs and IETF are special cases, open to everybody but too Special.

Interesting experiences emerge in some countries at the national Level. 

Lets wait and see what Fadis "many little ICANNs" will produce. 

We are still in an early phase. There is no "BEST practice", but there is a growing number of "good practices". 



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