Observation group to study pluralist Internet regulation
Abstract
Most Internet stakeholders long for the network to be regulated by a legitimate, representative, international body that would have the monopoly in the matter. In other words, they would like to see a centralized authority. But in reality, Internet regulation appears as the ability to configure the network, and in this respect, can be considered as a pluralist model of regulation. This pluralism is not related to the plurality of the stakeholders but rather to the heterogeneous nature of a number of diverse aspects: The heterogeneousness of stakeholders with an independent ability to configure the Internet The heterogeneousness of interests, logics and priorities on the basis of which these stakeholders configure the Internet The heterogeneousness of positions (libertarian, contractual, regulatory, cooperative) that these stakeholders adopt when presented with the issue of regulation The heterogeneousness of the scale (national, transnational, inter-State) on which these stakeholders work to configure the Internet At the IUT dOrsay, we have created an observation group to: Identify the actions and initiatives that are taking place at each level Analyze how these initiatives work together fortuitously to make the Internet operational Consider the democratic legitimacy of this type of regulation
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