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This is a counterpart to the previous thread, for ideas about what
should go into the Internet governance principles statement for the
IGF that we develop at Best Bits. Whilst we will be working on this
face-to-face, it is sensible not to cram our work into one session
when preparatory work can be done online.<br>
<br>
Indeed there has already been a lot of work done on Internet
governance principles, some of which we have discussed here already,
including that of the IRP Coalition (the "punchy" version is found
at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://irpcharter.org/campaign/">http://irpcharter.org/campaign/</a> - these are based around
substantive human rights) and the Declaration by the Committee of
Ministers on Internet governance principles (found at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1835773">https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1835773</a>, scroll down - these give
more emphasis to governance norms).<br>
<br>
Some may ask, what is the purpose of the Best Bits Internet
governance principles that is not served by any existing document?
After all, one of the purposes of Best Bits is to facilitate
consolidation of our efforts where appropriate, rather than further
fragmentation. The answer is that there is still no broad civil
society statement of principles that is:<br>
<ul>
<li>from civil society (the IRP document is multi-stakeholder, the
CoE one is governmental); and<br>
</li>
<li>diverse (the Declaration of Internet Freedom was mostly
drafted in the US); and</li>
<li>is addressed to the IGF as our input into what is hoped will
become a multi-stakeholder statement of principles (or
"Framework of Commitment" as Wolfgang calls it) in 2014.<br>
</li>
</ul>
That said, we don't want to reinvent the wheel and we do want to
draw upon and acknowledge existing work.<br>
<br>
So, please use this thread to discuss ideas, and once they are more
progressed, some draft text could go into a (currently empty) pad at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/ITU">http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/IG-principles</a>.<br>
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