With the increasing international focus on the future of the ITU and its role (or lack thereof) in Internet governance, there is greater attention being paid to the fact that much of the 'governance' of the Internet is in fact carried out by so-called 'multistakeholder ('MSH') organizations.'...

On August 24-25, 2011, Silicon Flatirons convened a roundtable to discuss the role of multistakeholder organizations. The unique characteristics of the Internet - its openness, its global interconnectedness, its decentralized nature, the interrelationships among the "layers" that comprise it -...