The Secretariat of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network is delighted to announce the release of Operational Approaches documents (download links below) for each of its three policy Programs: Data & Jurisdiction, Content & Jurisdiction, and Domains & Jurisdiction. They contain concrete proposals for Operational Norms, Operational Criteria and Operational Mechanisms to address some of the most pressing cross-border legal challenges of the digital 21st century.
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The proposals for concrete Operational Norms, Criteria and Mechanism put forth in the Data & Jurisdiction Operational Approaches documents intend to provide a common frame of reference for public and private decision-makers in their efforts to develop policy standards and cooperation frameworks.
The Operational Approaches documents will feed into the 3rd Global Conference of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network on June 3-5, 2019 in Berlin, which is organized in partnership with the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, and institutionally supported by six international organizations: Council of Europe, European Commission, ICANN, OECD, United Nations ECLAC, and UNESCO. On their basis, stakeholders will discuss the Berlin Roadmap to structure the work in the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network for the next two years, in preparation for its 4th Global Conference in 2021.
The Operational Approaches documents are the result of a best effort by the Members of the three Programs’ Contact Groups established to address the issues identified by stakeholders in the Ottawa Roadmap of the 2nd Global Conference of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network on February 26-28, 2018. The work of the Program’s Contact Groups was facilitated by three neutral Coordinators, appointed by the I&J Secretariat and selected for their outstanding expertise and standing in the community.
The Work Plans of the Ottawa Roadmap identified important structuring questions to further guide interactions within the three Programs of the Policy Network. The Operational Approaches released today are a joint contribution by some of the most engaged experts in this field to advance the ongoing debate on the complex cross-border issues of access to electronic evidence, online content moderation and restrictions, and requests for domain suspensions. They should however not be understood as the result of a formal negotiation validated by the Programs’ Contact Group Members’ organizations.
The proposals for concrete Operational Norms, Criteria and Mechanism put forth in the Operational Approaches documents are intended to provide a common frame of reference for public and private decision-makers in order to help stakeholders take into account the full range of relevant parameters when developing and implementing responsible frameworks, rules and practices to address the issues addressed within the three I&J Programs.
From Paris to Berlin and beyond: Stakeholders from Around the World Progress Towards Operational Solutions
On November 14-16, 2016, over 200 stakeholders from more than 40 countries gathered at the 1st Global Conference of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network in Paris, France, where they collectively identified Areas for Cooperation for the three Programs, based on Framing Papers summarizing four years of international deliberations in the Policy Network. These Areas for Cooperation served as mandate for three Programs’ Contact Groups, whose Members developed Policy Options outlining tangible pathways to jointly address pressing cross-border legal challenges in cyberspace. These three Policy Options documents then formed the basis for discussions at the 2nd Global Conference of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network, on February 26-28, 2018, in Ottawa, Canada. There, for the very first time, stakeholders defined, concrete Common Objectives and detailed Work Plans to jointly develop policy standards and concrete solutions in each Program of the Policy Network. Together, they form the Ottawa Roadmap. To implement the Ottawa Roadmap, Members from around the world worked intensively in the Programs of the Policy Network between July 2018 and April 2019 to develop the present Operational Approaches. They will feed into the 3rd Global Conference of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network, on June 3-5, 2019, in Berlin, Germany.
Historical Documents and Background Information
List of Members | Framing Paper (2016) | Policy Options Document (2017) | Common Objective and Work Plan of the Ottawa Roadmap (2018) | Operational Approaches (2019)
Members of the Domains & Jurisdiction Program's Contact Group
Coordinator
Maarten Botterman
Director, GNKS Consult and Board Director
ICANN
Members
Benedict Addis
Chair
Registrar of Last Resort (RoLR)
Fiona Alexander
Associate Administrator
United States, Department of Commerce NTIA
Tijani Ben Jemaa
Executive Director
Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (MFIA)
James Bladel
Vice President of Policy
GoDaddy
Jordan Carter
Chief Executive
InternetNZ
Mishi Choudhary
Legal Director
Software Freedom Law Centre
Brian Cimbolic
Vice President and General Counsel
Public Interest Registry
Keith Drazek
Vice President, Public Policy and Government Relations
VeriSign
Heather Dryden
Senior Advisor
Canada, Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development
Rita Forsi
Director General, Superior Institute for Communications and Information Technology
Italy, Ministry of Economic Development
Jothan Frakes
Executive Director
Domain Name Association (DNA)
Grace Githaiga
Co-Convenor
Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANET)
Hartmut Glaser
Executive Secretary
Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br)
Rahul Gosain
Director, IRSME
India, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Rudolf Gridl
Head of Division, Internet Governance
Germany, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Rob Hall
CEO
Momentous
Byron Holland
President and CEO
Canadian Internet Registry Authority (CIRA)
Will Hudson
Senior Advisor for International Policy
Google
Manal Ismail
Executive Director, International Technical Coordination
Egypt, National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority
Konstantinos Komaitis
Senior Director, Strategy and Policy Development
Internet Society (ISOC)
Marilia Maciel
Digital Policy Senior Researcher
Diplo Foundation
Desiree Miloshevic
Senior Advisor, International Affairs and Public Policy
Afilias
Paul Mitchell
Senior Director, Technology Policy
Microsoft
Cristina Monti
Policy Officer, International Data Flows and Protection
European Commission, DG JUST
Michele Neylon
CEO
Blacknight Internet Solutions
Seun Ojedeji
Chief Network Engineer
Federal University of Oye-Ekiti
Crystal Ondo
Vice President, Corporate Affairs
Donuts
Rod Rasmussen
Principal
R2 Cyber
Bryan Schilling
Consumer Safeguards Director
ICANN
Jorg Schweiger
CEO
DENIC
Geo Van Langenhove
Legal Manager & Data Protection Officer
European Registry of Internet Domain Names (EURid)
Peter Van Roste
General Manager
Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR)
Chris Wilson
Senior Manager, Public Policy (Internet Governance)
Amazon Web Services
