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Dear Joana,<br><br>
The WSIS has established the existence of four MS groups: Govs, Business,
Multilateral organizations, and the others (or Civil Society). The IETF
(RFC 3869) has requested the support of Governments in order for the
Internet technology R&D to not be biased by the sole commercial
sponsoring, such as in the ARPANET times. Times have changed and the USG
financing comes from procurement orders (like from the NSA/USCC), so
there has been a USG lead "multistakeholder" reorganization
where the stakeholders are the USG, ICANN, ISOC (which now has the IETF
as an affiliate) and, as you may note it, a deafening silence from the US
CS replaced now by "academics".<br><br>
These US MS Gov, I* and CS balance carries real weight in the whole
digital ecosystem. It is currently trying to "globalize". This
either means to export their equilibrium to the whole internet world or
to try to adjust to the rest of this world. Today, I suppose that no one
knows what will happen. However, we know two things:<br><br>
* we need to be all on equal footing to make sure everything will be
discussed.<br>
* we fully know everything from one another to make sure we know about
what we discuss.<br><br>
Your current effort is, therefore, the key to the whole thing: to collect
and disseminate clearly documented information (not "informative
documents" that can be used to blur some points). There are points
to be discussed: these points must be listed and documented on a daily
basis. The best tool that I know of for that is a Wiki, because things
must be listed by ideas, and links to documents can be included. It also
permits everyone to comparatively present their positions. This is why I
created
"<a href="http://brammsummit.org/">http://brammsummit.org</a>"
in order to stir up some CS influence(for <b><u>everyone</u></b> to use
it, like a Wikipedia) and to be neutral (I disagree with most
<b><u>everyone</u></b> :-)) <br><br>
Please feel free to participate in this wiki. Please also feel free to
propose to the Brazilian Minister to take it over as long as the target
is for everyone to be able to post opposing positions resulting in a
neutral inclusive compendium My main point is that the Internet technical
community is NOT the IETF, W3C, IEEE, RIRs. They are only part of it (and
most are paid by Govs and Businesses). The Internet community spans
through the FOUR WSIS multistakeholder groups and is mostly made (in
terms of number of people and origins of ideas) of FLOSS developers. What
we want is the Brazilian FLOSS people to represent the lead users (the
users who know how to make their own internet work better) of the whole
world at the conference. These people know nothing about the IG policy;
but they know about the internet and the way it can and should work, and
they know how to document a wiki.<br><br>
There is a need for unbiased, open to everyone and from everyone,
information. The first target of Brazil should be to show the spirit of
the summit in hosting it. Subscribe to the
<a href="http://bramsummit.org/">http://bramsummit.org</a> wiki, and
let’s cooperate in order to structure it in a way that it will be
difficult to change to bias the preparation, let’s propose to Brazil to
host it, and to 1net to also use it. This wiki in the summit
preparation is a CS contribution. Let’s use the press as well as good and
inclusive information to make it central. My initial proposition was that
the wiki's leadership would be Brazilian. If it was not inclusively
managed, it would strive anyway to be inclusively informed, and to
support the IUsers’ positions.<br>
jfc<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 13 Nov 2013, at 8:13 pm,
Joana Varon
<<a href="mailto:joana@varonferraz.com">joana@varonferraz.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><br>
My understanding was that the liasons would work as a bridge between the
Brazilian Gov and International civil society, passing information and
concerns about the Summit. I'm happy to help with it, but if there is no
need, my life will be easier, so I'll be happy as well. I just need to
know the overall position, because since Bali I've been readapting my
agenda and priorities to be able to do this. If it is useless, just let
me know. If it is needed, a letter indicating and making clear our role
as liassons will also be of good help.</blockquote></blockquote><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Brazilian government (or the
national steering committee coordinating the summit) have a meeting today
afternoon with the technical community (Icann and Isoc at least) to
coordinate 0.o and shall release more info about the Summit soon. I've
just written an email to the national steering committee requesting more
info and inclusiveness for the liasons. From civil society, only Glaser
(<a href="http://cgi.br">cgi.br</a>), and maybe Carlos (?), will be
there. <br><br>
Also, Minister of Communications, Paulo Bernardo is going for the first
time to Icann and have a 45min slot in the program (attached). <br><br>
Once again, as suggested by Matthew, I do believe a formal letter
nominating and explaining our role as liasons, and not representatives,
for International Civil Society for information regarding the Summit will
be good to legitimate and help our job here.</blockquote><br><br>
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