Internet governance

A lot of people miss that.

But in all seriousness, You know, internet governance, I guess, at first kind of took shape within ICANN, but took on a bigger shape, you know, as the internet proliferated around the world and you have the Internet Governance Forum that's active within the UN and I think from governance perspective, let's start with ICANN.

ICANN was a completely new, creative, innovative idea about instead of regulating a technology, let's try this new model of multi-stakeholder bottom-up governance.

So industry, government, and civil society all get to participate on even ground, no one's more powerful than the other, in developing the policies that are going to make the domain name system, the internet's identifier system work.

And so it's been a success.

Could it improve? For sure.

Internet governance, when you get to other questions, for example, where I see people talking about AI governance, it makes me flinch a little bit.

because, well, for one, the domain name system, because of the architecture of the DNS, where you can only have one operator of one namespace, it's a scarce resource, right? It had attributes and qualities that lent better to creating this kind of multistakeholder governance envelope around it.