Report on International Desk Research
Report prepared for Consultancy study on the Institutional Framework and Corporate Governance for the Administration of Internet Domain Names in Hong Kong Deliverable 3 (Part I): Report on international desk research Gov3 limited | 83 Victoria Street | London | SW1H OHW | UK | www.gov3.net CONTENTS Page Executive Summary 3 Part I: Cross-country Overview 1 Introduction 6 Background 6 From “best practice” to “international practices mapping” 8 Structure of the report 9 2. Governance and government 11 Governance versus Government in general 11 Governance versus Government in the ccTLD best practice debate 13 Government role in ccTLD management: desk research findings 17 3 Synthetic overview of desk research findings 22 Organisational structure 22 Policy priorities 24 Governance processes 24 Operational practices 28 Forward orientation 33 4 International practices mapping 35 Policy priorities, organisational type, and government control matrixes 35 Governance matrixes 39 Operational practices matrixes 41 5 Conclusive Considerations 48 Part II: Country Reports (see separate document) 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This is the report on the findings of the international desk research activity, during which we have used web-based research, and a trawl of relevant published academic and market research, to pull together an assessment of the current state of domain name registration in the agreed list of 13 selected countries: Australia, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, the UK and the US. The report is in two main parts: Part I, which synthesises our key findings across all the countries; and Part II, which examines each country in turn against a common analytical framework.
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