[ioepanel] Suggestion to Panel on historical uses of Internet ecosystem terminology

[Patrick Jones]

The Strategy Panel on ICANN's role in the Internet Governance Ecosystem may
find the following documents useful in its work. In July 2013, I published
on the ICANN Blog an overview of the historical uses of certain terms at
ICANN, describing definitions for coordination, collaboration, security,
stability and resiliency (SSR). See
http://blog.icann.org/2013/07/icanns-security-terminology/.

The FY 12, FY 13 and FY 14 Security, Stability & Resiliency Frameworks had a
two-part structure with the first section focused on ICANN's role in SSR in
the Internet Ecosystem. The most recent SSR Framework
(https://www.icann.org/en/about/staff/security/ssr/ssr-plan-fy14-06mar13-en.
pdf) contained a statement of ICANN's role and remit in response to
Recommendation 1 of the SSR Review Team. The text of the role and remit
statement is extracted below:

"As a global multistakeholder organization, ICANN facilitates the security,
stability and resiliency of the Internet¹s unique identifier systems through
coordination and collaboration.
The community expects ICANN, as a global organization, to perform its role
in an open, accountable and transparent manner and inclusive of the
diversity of stakeholders in the greater Internet ecosystem.

Within its technical mission, ICANN¹s SSR role encompasses three categories
of responsibilities:

1.     ICANN¹s operational responsibilities (organizational risk management
of internal operations including L-root, DNS operations, DNSSEC key signing
operations, IANA functions, new TLD operations, Time Zone Database
Management);

2.     ICANN¹s involvement as a coordinator, collaborator and facilitator
with the global community in policy and technical matters related to the
Internet's unique identifiers;

3.    ICANN's engagement with others in the global Internet ecosystem."

The FY 14 Framework contained a definition of ecosystem health adapted from
the discipline of ecological economics, "a measure of the overall
performance of a complex system that is built up from the behaviour of its
parts.² (Footnote#5, page 7: This concept is adapted from "What is a healthy
ecosystem?" by Robert Costanza and Michael Mageau, University of Maryland
Institute for Ecological Economics, 1999, published in Aquatic Ecology,
http://geminis.dma.ulpgc.es/profesores/personal/jmpc/Master08%28PrimeraEdici
%F3n%29/Homeostasis/Homeo03s.pdf
<http://geminis.dma.ulpgc.es/profesores/personal/jmpc/Master08%28PrimeraEdic
i%F3n%29/Homeostasis/Homeo03s.pdf> ,
http://books.google.com/books?id=YTeCxF5gqMQC&dq=ecosystem+and+health. The
concept described has also been influenced by A Framework to Analyze the
Robustness of Social-ecological Systems from an Institutional Perspective
(2004), http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss1/art18/
<http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss1/art18/> .)

This is a friendly contribution to the work of the panel.

Best regards,

Patrick

-- 
Patrick L. Jones
Senior Director, Global Stakeholder Engagement
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers
801 17th Street, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: +1-202-570-7115
patrick.jones at icann.org



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