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Understanding the Internet Ecosystem: Players and Actors

Explore the Internet Society, its mission, and the main actors shaping the Internet's operating layers, standards, infrastructure, and future. Learn how the ISOC ensures the open development and use of the Internet for all.

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Understanding the Internet Ecosystem: Players and Actors

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  1. The Internet Ecosystem: players and actors Shernon Osepa Manager Regional Affairs Latin America & Caribbean CANTO Annual Conference & Trade Exhibition Miami, USA 23 July 2012

  2. Agenda • What is the Internet Society (ISOC) • The Internet’s Operating Layers • Main actors • Naming & Addressing • Standards • Infrastructure/equipment • Users/applications providers • Capacity building/education • Policy Development • Q & A

  3. Internet Society • Founded in 1992 by Internet pioneers • Not for profit international organization • 110+ organizational members • 60.000+ individual members • 90+ local chapters worldwide • Offices: Africa, Asia, Europe, LAC, USA • ISOC’s mission is "to assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world” • We do this by working in the areas of technical standards, policy development and education

  4. What Made Internet Society Unique? • 20 years of leadership at the intersection of Internet technology, development, and public policy • Organizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which sets global Internet Standards • Trusted reputation as neutral and unbiased advocates for the Internet • Broad engagement across stakeholders including industry, government, universities, and civil society • Expert contributors to the World Economic Forum, United Nations bodies, Internet Governance Forum(IGF), OECD, etc. • Access to an international network of experts

  5. Internet’s Three Operating Layers Content and applications standards (HTML, XML, Java) – Promotes creativity and innovation in applications leading to email, World Wide Web, ebanking, wiki, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Google, YouTube and much more Internet protocols and standards (TCP/IP, DNS, SSL) – TCP/IP, controls traffic flow by dividing email and web data into packages before they are transmitted on the Internet Telecommunications infrastructure – Physical network made up of underwater cables, telephone lines, fiber optics, satellites, microwaves, wi-fi, and so on Facilitates transfer of electronic data over the Internet 5

  6. The Players & Actors

  7. The Future of The Internet • Depends heavily on maintaining three characteristics: • Openness: • Access: • Transparency: • Major discussions going on that could change the Internet that we know today • Indifference on issues such as net neutrality, security, privacy and data protection is not an option Applicable principle moving forward: “Address the challenges without breaking the system”!

  8. Thank You Shernon Osepa osepa@isoc.org

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