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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/10/13 06:33, John Curran wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Oct 9, 2013, at 3:02 PM, Avri Doria <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:avri@acm.org"><avri@acm.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Do I understand correctly: according to this the President of ICANN has just agreed with the need for external oversight of ICANN, and unnamed other organizations, involved in governance/management of the Internet, just as long as it is multistakeholder?
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<pre wrap="">It appears to be a significant effort to address Internet Governance
challenges, including acceleration of the globalization of ICANN towards
an environment in which all stakeholders (including all governments) can
participate on an equal footing...
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It puts civil society to shame in how timid we, at large, have been
in proposing similar advances on the status quo. (I have not made
much of a secret of the fact that I was disappointed in the number
of endorsements that the Best Bits statement on enhanced cooperation
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bestbits.net/ec">http://bestbits.net/ec</a>)
received, though in part I accept that this was because the
statement was simply too long.)<br>
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This has also, in one stroke, determined the IGF's future. Of
course the writing has been on the wall for the IGF for a while now,
but it has now officially become irrelevant in terms of its larger
role in multi-stakeholder Internet governance as originally
anticipated in the Tunis Agenda. Of course it will continue to have
a role as a discussion forum, but the momentum for it to fulfil a
larger role has moved elsewhere.<br>
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It also neutralises the effect of the old guard of the technical
community (ISOC mainly) at the Working Group on Enhanced
Cooperation. Whilst they can still oppose meaningful implementation
of enhanced cooperation reforms, this opposition is now utterly
token and ineffectual. With Brazil (and ICANN!) having lost
patience and forging ahead regardless, this leaves anyone arguing
against reforms at the WGEC looking silly and irrelevant. <br>
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