IGF 2022 WS #351 A Unified Global DNS vs. Internet Fragmentation

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Targets: 8.3. It is only through a globally accessible Internet that micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises can reach a global audience and potential clients. A global internet encourages entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation in all sectors of the economy.
8.9 Using internationalized domain names, local culture and products can be promoted for local tourism more easily, creating sustainability in the sector.
9.1 Reliable, sustainable Internet infrastructure that is not only regional but also transborder supports economic development for all and affords equitable access to international resources online.
9.2. It is through exports that the share of inclusive and sustainable industrialization can fully be achieved. For that, a global Internet is necessary, especially for least developed countries, to allow them full access to the global market.
9.a Sustainable and resilient infrastructure for developing countries implies access to information and data through the Internet shared by the rest of the world. A fragmented Internet would make this significantly more challenging for these countries.
9.c With a fragmented Internet, access to information and communication technologies does not bring the benefits that a global Internet provides. Providing universal and affordable access would lose its potential if the Internet is not global
10.1 A global Internet encourages cross-border trade, achieving higher levels of income for countries who are able to partake. A fragmented Internet highly reduces these benefits.
10.2 Access to information can better be achieved through a global Internet. A fragmented Internet has the potential to reduce this access for select citizens, disempowering them and promoting exclusionary measures.
10.3 When equal opportunity is applied globally, it is essential to preserve a global Internet. It is only through global access that all can have equal opportunity and avoid being discriminated against. It also avoids the promotion of laws, policies and practices that might hinder this progress.
12.5 A fragmented Internet is likely to create more waste, from multiple devices, connections and technologies in general, to e-waste having to use different Internets to connect and be online.
12.8 A global Internet has the potential to provide the same information to all users, irrespective of external factors, to achieve sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.
16.8 The Internet has been one of the first to embrace multistakeholder governance. The global institutions that have developed around it all espouse this model and encourage and help developing countries’ participation.
16.9 A fragmented Internet would likely make online legal identities incompatible with the different systems. Online identities would however be a great tool to provide legal identities to certain vulnerable groups, as it already has been done for refugees by the Red Cross.
16.10 A fragmented internet would prevent public access to information and hinder the protection of fundamental rights of citizens. It is important to have a global Internet to have equal access to information and know about the fundamental rights we all have.
16.a International cooperation and capacity building at all levels is more important in a world with a global Internet. With fragmentation, it is much more difficult to achieve international cooperation as there are fewer players involved
17.6 Knowledge sharing and international cooperation is a lot more valuable when that knowledge on science, technology and innovation is universal. Coordination mechanisms are currently in place that a fragmented Internet would hinder and the knowledge sharing would slow down.
17.8 The benefits of the technology bank can only be reaped fully if the Internet remains global. Shared resources and common protocols are enabling technologies for least developed countries. A fragmented Internet would diminish the benefits of such a resource.
17.9 International cooperation and targeted capacity building are much more effective when there is a global Internet. With fragmentation, these activities are much more complex and need a higher level of coordination.
17.13 A global interoperable Internet enhances macrostability and creates the ability to better coordinate policies
17.14 Policy coherence for sustainable development would be much harder to achieve with a fragmented Internet.
17.15 The Internet is global and interoperable and at the same time is also local. Internationalized domain names allow for local content creation for instance, respecting each country’s space. This helps States establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development.
17.16 A global Internet allows for the development of global partnerships based on the multistakeholder model. It is only through this model that the SDGs can be fully achieved.
17.17 The global Internet’s governance is based on a multistakeholder approach, which promotes effective public, public-private and civil partnerships. This would mostly be lost with a fragmented Internet.