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.

Hi all,

I remember some weeks ago it emerged interest in submarine cable, on the list.

At FGV, we are going to host a day-long seminar on the Governance of Submarine Cables, on Wednesday, in partnership with CGI.br, the French Consulate, Internet Sans Frontières and the Brazilian Consumer Protection Institute.  See https://www.cg.org.br/noticia/releases/seminario-inedito-sobre-operacao-e-uso-de-cabos-submarinos-tera-a-participacao-e-apoio-do-cgi-br/

If anyone in the Rio area is interested, sejam benvindos :)

The event will be in Portuguese but our FGV fellow Félix Blanc will be in Paris for the IGF (he is going to organise an IGF workshop on the same topic) and I can put anyone interested in contact with him to have further insight on our debates and on future work, if anyone is interested.

All the best

Luca

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