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<font face="Verdana">Sorry, I forgot to add - not that IGC is going
to come up with a WCIT analysis :), but I agree it may not be
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<div>On 23/12/2012, at 12:06 PM, parminder <<a
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<div>Referring to the BestBits statement in reacting to
the new ITRs seemed like the natural and right thing
to do, but it was most certainly not meant to speak on
behalf of the BestBits group. There are of course a
variety of different views on WCIT, so it is
understandable that there may be disagreement among
BestBits signatories on how the new treaty measures
against the BestBits statement. But as you suggest,
initiating that conversation within the BestBits group
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I propose that Jeremy and Andrew attempt that exercise,
whether or not it culminates into an agreement on a single
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<div>First dealing with whether there should be another
statement, many of you (including IT for Change) have
already signed on to a post-WCIT statement developed at a
workshop ‘Governing the Internet’ held in Rio last month.
For lack of a decent alternative place for it on our
current website, when Andrew asked me to add the statement
to the Best BIts site I just stuck it on the front page
underneath our main pre-WCIT Best Bits statement (though
since it's not an output of our Best Bits meeting maybe I
should move it to the "links" section at the bottom?).</div>
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<div>There is some overlap between this and the statement
developed in Dubai, though the latter is longer and pushes
more strongly for the reform of the ITU. There's no reason
why I couldn't link to that too. But if we want to
highlight only one of them, it should be one that has the
support of the whole group if possible. Do we want to
collectively support one or the other? Or just link to them
both? Whilst I have supported both statements, I do have
reservations about how the longer one presupposes that we
want the ITU to remain in this space as an institution that
we would have a strong interest in more deeply engaging
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<div>The alternative, and what Andrew and I (and others) had
proposed that the Best Bits group should move onto in the
new year, would be trying to map out a future for Internet
governance that doesn't revolve around the ITU, and indeed
would probably to some extent sideline the ITU, as WGIG did
with its four recommendations in 2005. This would be our
input into the new CSTD working group on Enhanced
Cooperation. We (at least those who can make it) will have
the opportunity for a face-to-face on this at a workshop on
25 February in Paris that has been reserved already.
Personally I think this is a better way forward than
getting hung up on the ITU and thereby investing it with
more importance than it deserves.</div>
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<div>So whilst you have proposed that Andrew and I attempt to
assess how the new treaty measures against the (first) Best
Bits statement, I would also note that this kind of analysis
is something that the Internet Governance Caucus is planning
to do, and so it might be more efficient for those who want
to do an in-depth analysis of the ITRs to join that effort,
rather than duplicating it. There is a little working group
mailing list for that (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/wcit">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/wcit</a>),
which you can join. Trying to do both as Best Bits is
possible, but I would favour a division of labour between us
and the IGC whereby their working group can analyse the
ITRs, and we can focus on "if not the ITU, then what".</div>
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<div>Anyway, these are just my thoughts and I welcome
alternative views. Meanwhile Andrew and I are planning to
talk early in the new year and come back with some
suggestions about the way forward. </div>
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