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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">here are few lines on my impressions of what happened at the
High Level Panel meeting in London on Friday. I hope it will help us better understand
the intentions and potentials of this (dynamically evolving and self-reshaping)
initiative.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was there in status of an observer, representing Diplo who
was invited among others by ICANN to provide its expertise and assist the
drafting of report by the HL panel. The Panel event was under Chatham House
rule, so I will try to bring as many details as possible while still respecting
this rule. The views below are my personal, as I saw the discussions and the
process. Besides the impressions below, I (and several others) have been
extensively tweeting with #InternetPanel (read <a href="https://twitter.com/search?had_popular=true&q=InternetPanel" title="https://twitter.com/search?had_popular=true&q=InternetPanel">here</a>)
so you can get a pretty good snapshot of key points in discussion through that.
Formal Press Release has been published and is available <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/high-level-panel-on-global-internet-cooperation-and-governance-mechanisms-convenes-in-london-235789861.html" title="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/high-level-panel-on-global-internet-cooperation-and-governance-mechanisms-convenes-in-london-235789861.html">here</a>
– it brings more or less all the basic info on topics and participants of the
meeting as well as the future timeline.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>HL Group and experts</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Panel includes 21 members listed in the Press Release;
additionally, a final one (Anriette from APC) has been accepted during the
meeting in London to reflect loud civil society requests. Panel is dominated by
tech and corporate sector, with few yet high level representatives of
governments; only now there is a panel member from civil society organisation. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It was my impression that initially the entire HL Panel was
composed based on “names” rather than on representation of stakeholders; yet it
appears that it was acknowledged at the end that the absence of civil society
organisations can hurt the process. On the other hand, civil society experts
dominate the expert group who is supposed to assist with drafting the final
report – as the agenda in press release shows. As an observer (replacing Jovan
who was invited as expert but was not able to join in London), I did not have
chance to formally raise civil society concerns expressed on this list and
elsewhere, but other experts were involved in formal discussion. I hope
Anriette’s formal presence in future will extend this direct opportunity.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At London meeting there were most of Panel members, the experts,
dozen of observers assisting Panel members or as guests, and some ICANN staff –
total about 50 people, invited by ICANN. These are likely the people that will
gather also in the next phases of the work. I suppose there will be no further
changes in composition of the panel. I also got the impression the following
two meetings will not be opened for observers rather than those invited
directly or related to panel members, nor there will be greater transparency
during the meetings; instead, it seems public consultations (primarily on 1Net)
will be the public inputs into the work of the panel.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Task</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Panel has decided to be titled “Panel on global Internet
cooperation and governance mechanisms”. Their goal is to prepare a blueprint
document – a report – as described in press release. The focus of London discussions
was on mapping the ecosystem and needs, discussing the “desirable properties”
of future system, and agreeing on next steps. While there were interesting
discussions, my impression was that there were very few new aspects on the
table yet. It is my hope that the panel (and especially the experts who do have
extensive knowledge of already-discussed issues in and various fora in previous
years) will reflect to valuable outputs of previous IGF and other meetings
rather than reinventing the wheel. It was confirmed that the summary of
discussion points will be posted to 1Net.org soon asking for community
reflections.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The final draft of the report should be ready during second
HL meeting in US end February; then it should be formally submitted as
contribution to Sao Paolo meeting and Freedom Online conference in Tallinn in
April, and offered for public consultations towards the next draft (not sure if
only through 1Net, but probably will not be limited to that). It is supposed
the draft report will find its place in the Sao Paolo meeting as well. The
outputs of this and public discussions will be fed into the final report to be
wrapped up during the third meeting in Dubai in early May. It should then be
fed into various processes incl. ICANN meeting in London in June, IGF in
September, etc. It is important to mention that the relevance and legitimacy of
IGF was mentioned several times in discussions, and I had a feeling that the
panel and experts are aware that this process should contribute to (and
possibly strengthen) the IGF rather than undermine it.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Other components</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My impression was that there was distancing by ICANN and the
HL panel from the Sao Paolo meeting. Brazil meeting was mentioned only once at
the end as a place where the report may be discussed – and was mentioned as
only one such opportunity. There was no feeling that Sao Paolo conference is
part of this initiative. At the same time the news was spread that Brazilian
president Rousseff met French President Holland and that France might support Sao
Paolo meeting (I found no direct confirmation for this in news yet however –
pointers welcomed if anyone has).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On the other hand 1Net was mentioned several times as the
place in which public contributions on the draft report should be provided. It
was of course only the reference to 1Net with regards to the HL Panel work, but
it is possible that 1Net was envisaged with a broader goal; there was no
further info however on how 1Net will proceed, nor on its Steering Committees
or further steps.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Timeline</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The timeline of meetings was presented in the press release
as well. Yet let me combine it here with the updated info on other relevant 2014
events mentioned and not mentioned in London:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">22-25 January, Davos: Side-meeting of the HL Panel during
WEF annual meeting</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">27-28 February, US: 2nd HL meeting</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">31 March, Dubai (rather than Sharm): ITU WTDC</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">23-24 April, Sao Paolo: Brazil conference</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">28-29 April, Tallinn: Freedom Online Conference</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3-4 May, Dubai: 3rd (final) HL meeting</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I hope this shed bit more light on what this whole new
initiative will be about. It is slightly clearer to me now, though I still have
lots of questions about 1Net. It is my belief that we should try to, whatever
the initial idea behind 1Net was (and also the HL Panel), explore its
potentials to strengthen the IGF and improve communications among professional
(and stakeholder) silos.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span>Vlada</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">PS Sorry for a rather long email.. I decided to be detailed in this case, and mention as much as possible.<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Fouad Bajwa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fouadbajwa@gmail.com" target="_blank">fouadbajwa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I had a small question from our colleagues that are participating in the process. Is the panel only going to move forward in its present opening structure or is it open to more stakeholder participation from developing countries'. Any chances of remote participation and input?<br>
<br><div>Best Regards</div><div>Fouad Bajwa</div><div><br></div>Sent from my mobile device</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Dec 14, 2013, at 7:58 PM, Carolina <<a href="mailto:carolina.rossini@gmail.com" target="_blank">carolina.rossini@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Thank you Bill and glad that Anriette has joined as well.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Dec 14, 2013, at 1:28 PM, William Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" target="_blank">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Carolina<div><br></div><div>The press release pretty much covers what was discussed, who was there, and the next steps. I was happy we got agreement to open things up by having online discussions per theme, and that they have invited Anriette to join the group. In terms of ideas discussed, one that seems to have some traction is to do something to help foster the development of multistakeholder processes at the national level, inter alia in the hope that this will strengthen the diversity of engagement at the global level. </div>
<div><br></div><div>It is currently expected that the final report will be brief, under ten pages, and will be revised in light of the feedback from Sao Paulo and elsewhere. </div><div><br></div><div>The tweets are at #InternetPanel but there’s not so much given the Chatham rule.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 14, 2013, at 10:43 AM, Carolina Rossini <<a href="mailto:carolina.rossini@gmail.com" target="_blank">carolina.rossini@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">any reports back from that meeting already? <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Adam Peake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajp@glocom.ac.jp" target="_blank">ajp@glocom.ac.jp</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="http://www.telegraphindia.com/pressrelease/prnw/en33449.html" target="_blank">http://www.telegraphindia.com/pressrelease/prnw/en33449.html</a><br>
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High-Level Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms Convenes in London<br>
<br>
PR Newswire<br>
<br>
LONDON, Dec. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms -- a diverse group of global stakeholders from government, civil society, the private sector, the technical community and international organizations -- held their first meeting in London to discuss global Internet cooperation and governance mechanisms. The Panel expressed strong support for a multistakeholder approach to the future of Internet governance. The conversations held at the London meeting were facilitated by a team of Internet governance experts. The discussion will be taken online in the coming days at <a href="http://1Net.org" target="_blank">1Net.org</a>.<br>
<br>
"The world relies on the Internet for economic, social, and political progress. It is imperative to ensure emerging issues are properly addressed in a global context, without individual governments or intergovernmental organizations developing their own solutions," said Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and chair of the Panel.<br>
<br>
"The success of the Internet is rooted in a distributed and bottom-up model, with openness and collaboration at its core," said Vint Cerf, vice-chair of the Panel. "The inaugural meeting of the Panel brought together a diverse set of perspectives on the future of the Internet, and through this diversity I'm confident we can chart a course to protect the core of the current ecosystem, while evolving its methods, accessibility, and universality to meet the opportunities and challenges of the future."<br>
<br>
In keeping with its mission, the first meeting of the Panel addressed desirable properties for global Internet cooperation, administration and governance. The Panel will conduct two additional meetings in the coming months. The next meeting, scheduled for late February 2014 in Rancho Mirage, California, will be hosted by The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands. Sunnylands is partnering with the Panel in its substantive work. Following this meeting, a high-level draft report will then be released for open consultation. A final meeting will be hosted by the World Economic Forum in May 2014 in Dubai. During this meeting, the Panel will consider community feedback and discussions at forums including the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance in Braziland the Freedom Online Coalition's conference in Tallinn, Estonia. A high-level report will be published at the conclusion of the May meeting, and is expected to cover the following areas:<br>
<br>
• A brief overview of the current Internet governance ecosystem<br>
• Opportunities and challenges facing the current ecosystem<br>
• Desirable ecosystem properties including:<br>
• Ecosystem legitimacy<br>
• Effective and inclusive multi-interest and consensus-based system<br>
• Ensuring global participation including from the developing world<br>
• Co-existence with other governance systems (national and multi-lateral) ensuring a stable system that is not prone to attack, mismanagement, and manipulation<br>
Panel members are working in their personal capacity. Members consist of:<br>
<br>
• Mohamed Al Ghanim, Founder and Director General of the UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority; former Vice-Chair, UAE Information and Communications Technology Fund; Chairman of WCIT-12<br>
• Virgilio Fernandes Almeida, Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Internet Steering Committee; National Secretary for Information Technology Policies<br>
• Dorothy Attwood, Senior Vice President of Global Public Policy, Walt Disney Company<br>
• Mitchell Baker, Chair, Mozilla Foundation; Chair and former CEO, Mozilla Corporation<br>
• Francesco Caio, CEO of Avio; former CEO, Cable and Wireless and Vodafone Italia; Founder of Netscalibur; broadband advisor in UK and Italy; Government Commissioner for Digital Agenda<br>
• Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google; former Chairman, ICANN; Co-Founder of the Internet Society<br>
• Fadi Chehade, CEO and President of ICANN; Founder of Rosetta Net; technology executive<br>
• Nitin Desai, Indian economist and diplomat; former UN Undersecretary General; convener of Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)<br>
• Byron Holland, President and CEO of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority<br>
• Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia; former diplomat and journalist; former Minister of Foreign Affairs; former Member of the European Parliament<br>
• Ivo Ivanovski, Minister of Information Society and Administration, Macedonia; Commissioner to the UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development<br>
• Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe; former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Norway<br>
• Omobola Johnson, Minister of Communication Technology of Nigeria<br>
• Olaf Kolkman, Director of NLnet Labs; "Evangineer" of the Open Internet; former Chair of the Internet Architecture Board<br>
• Frank La Rue, labor and human rights lawyer; UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression; Founder, Center for Legal Action for Human Rights (CALDH)<br>
• Robert M. McDowell, former U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner; Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute's Center for Economics of the Internet<br>
• Andile Ngcaba, Chairman and Founder, Convergence Partners; Executive Chairman, Dimension Data Middle East and Africa; former South African Government Director General of Communications<br>
• Liu Qingfeng, CEO and President of iFLYTEK; Director of National Speech & Language Engineering Laboratory of China; Member of Interactive Technology Standards working group<br>
• Lynn St. Amour, President and CEO of the Internet Society; telecoms and IT executive<br>
• Jimmy Wales, Founder and Promoter of Wikipedia; Member of the Board of Trustees of Wikimedia Foundation<br>
• Won-Pyo Hong, President, Media Solution Center, Samsung Electronics<br>
<br>
<br>
London Panel Agenda<br>
<br>
December 13<br>
<br>
09:00 -- 11:00<br>
<br>
Backgrounder<br>
<br>
Expert presentations on Internet Cooperation and<br>
Governance to cover:<br>
<br>
-- History of Internet cooperation and overview of<br>
current ecosystem<br>
<br>
Speaker: Vint Cerf<br>
<br>
-- Nature and scope of global Internet governance<br>
<br>
Speaker: William Drake<br>
<br>
-- Current system opportunities and challenges:<br>
( this includes legitimacy and mandate challenges,<br>
challenges for global participation and inclusion)<br>
<br>
Speaker: David Gross & Bertrand de la Chapelle<br>
<br>
11:00 -- 11:15<br>
<br>
Break<br>
<br>
11:15 -- 12:00<br>
<br>
Backgrounder Q&A Session<br>
<br>
12:00 -- 13:00<br>
<br>
Lunch<br>
<br>
13:00 -- 14:30<br>
<br>
Developing Desirable System Properties<br>
<br>
Panel is split into the following four proposed tracks,<br>
each moderated by an Internet Governance expert:<br>
<br>
<br>
-- Desirable properties for ecosystem legitimacy<br>
<br>
Moderator: David Gross<br>
<br>
-- Desirable properties for an effective and inclusive<br>
multi-interest & consensus-based system<br>
<br>
Moderator: Sally Wentworth<br>
<br>
-- Desirable properties to ensure global participation<br>
including from developing world<br>
<br>
Moderator: William Drake<br>
<br>
-- Desirable properties for co-existence with other<br>
governance systems (national and multi-lateral)<br>
ensuring a stable system that is not prone to attack,<br>
mismanagement, and manipulation.<br>
<br>
Moderator: Wolfgang Kleinwachter<br>
<br>
14:30 -- 14:45<br>
<br>
Break<br>
<br>
14:45 -- 17:30<br>
<br>
Joint Observations<br>
<br>
Panel members, moderated by experts, coalesce<br>
around a set of overall joint observations on the<br>
desirable system properties<br>
<br>
17:30 -- 17:45<br>
<br>
Break<br>
<br>
17:45 -- 18:30<br>
<br>
Wrap-up<br>
<br>
<br>
Panel members discuss next steps, timelines/dates,<br>
communication rules and modus operandi for panel<br>
<br>
About The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands<br>
The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, which operates The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California, is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit operating entity. The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands hosts high-level retreats that address serious issues facing the nation and the world, including the recent official meeting between President Obama and President Xi of the People's Republic of China. In addition, Sunnylands offers programs through the Sunnylands Center & Gardens to educate the public about the history of Sunnylands, its architecture, art collections, cultural significance, and sustainable practices.<br>
<br>
About ICANN<br>
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is an internationally organised, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions. As a private-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to developing policy appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes. For more information please visit:<a href="http://www.icann.org/" target="_blank">http://www.icann.org/</a>.<br>
<br>
About The World Economic Forum<br>
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas.<br>
<br>
Incorporated as a foundation in 1971 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum is impartial and not-for-profit; it is tied to no political, partisan or national interests (<a href="http://www.weforum.org/" target="_blank">http://www.weforum.org/</a>).<br>
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