Re: [DC3] Seminar on the Governance of Submarine Cables

Dear Luca, Very interesting topic. Please share the conclusions with this forum. It links with a presentation in the last IETF 102 in the GAIA WG. I hope it helps to continue and elaborate the discussion about these infrastructures. The slides: http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/docs/ietf-102-universal.pdf The issue is simple: the deployment of private infrastructures (private submarine cables) over non-private areas (that literally or conceptually belong to everyone and everything in this planet) should have a return to everyone in the form of min/no cost open-access fibre managed/governed as a commons. Instead of an "abstract" monetary tax return for their deployment and operation or profit, submarine cables should have a mandatory return in terms of infrastructure sharing: open-access fibres managed as a commons. Many stakeholders may be interested in it, but likewise unlicensed radio-spectrum bands, a single/pair fibre has unlimited potential for open-access communication under a commons governance. Attached is a copy in English of version 14 of a document developed by the guifi.net Foundation that proposes "universal deployment" as a template for municipal ordinance/regulation for municipalities in Catalonia, that is the basis for my proposal/presentation in the IETF. The current version (28) is in Catalan. Cc to Ramon Roca and Roger Baig from the guifi.net Foundation who have developed/coordinated this document: https://fundacio.guifi.net/en_US/page/documentos Kind regards, Leandro. On 27/10/18 20:50, Luca Belli wrote: