{"id":104580,"date":"2024-07-01T11:20:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/?post_type=insight&p=104580"},"modified":"2024-07-01T11:21:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T15:21:14","slug":"cdt-cto-mallory-knodel-joins-letter-urging-uns-secretary-general-and-envoy-on-technology-to-uphold-inclusive-model-of-internet-governance","status":"publish","type":"insight","link":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/insights\/cdt-cto-mallory-knodel-joins-letter-urging-uns-secretary-general-and-envoy-on-technology-to-uphold-inclusive-model-of-internet-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"CDT CTO Mallory Knodel Joins Letter Urging UN’s Secretary-General and Envoy on Technology to Uphold Inclusive Model of Internet Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Today, a group of technical experts involved in the development and maintenance of the Internet and the Web \u2013 including CDT CTO Mallory Knodel \u2013 published an open letter calling on the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General and the Secretary-General\u2019s Envoy on Technology to \u201cuphold the bottom-up, collaborative and inclusive model of Internet governance that has served the world for the past half century\u201d as part of the upcoming Global Digital Compact (GDC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
***<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n From the letter: <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Internet is an unusual technology because it is fundamentally distributed. It is built up from all of the participating networks. Each network participates for its own reasons according to its own needs and priorities. And this means, necessarily, that there is no center of control on the Internet. This feature is an essential property of the Internet, and not an accident. Yet over the past few years we have noticed a willingness to address issues on the Internet and Web by attempting to insert a hierarchical model of governance over technical matters. Such proposals concern us because they represent an erosion of the basic architecture.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n