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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Wednesday 05 March 2014 01:30 AM,
Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
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<div>Dear all,</div>
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<div>With thanks to everyone for their hard work on the drafts, we
are now simultaneously launching three submissions for the
NETmundial meeting. These submissions are the end results of
extensive discussions on the Best Bits lists going back to last
year, with a final face-to-face review this week (particularly
on the roadmap for further evolution of the institutional
submission) by those of you who are present at RightsCon in San
Francisco.</div>
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<div>The three complementary submissions, all of which are open
for endorsement separately, are:</div>
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<li>Internet governance principles, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bestbits.net/netmundial-principles/">http://bestbits.net/netmundial-principles/</a></li>
<li>Roadmap for the Further Evolution of the Internet
Governance Ecosystem – institutional mechanisms, <a
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href="http://bestbits.net/netmundial-roadmap/">http://bestbits.net/netmundial-roadmap/</a></li>
<li>Roadmap for the Further Evolution of the Internet
Governance Ecosystem – ICANN, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bestbits.net/netmundial-icann/">http://bestbits.net/netmundial-icann/</a></li>
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The ICANN related submission really takes the cake...<br>
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ICANN should stay a US non profit under Californian law, which is
declared to be the best for this purpose. Great! That is just the
pronouncement that people were waiting with bated breath for civil
society to make. <br>
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And if limited forays towards developing additional international
bases -without changing the legal incorporation in the US - has
indeed to be tried, try Belgium and Switzerland - dont even look at
those dangerous developing countries. But then of course there is,
latter on, also the standard, complementary patronising separate
section on doing something about those poor developing
countries.... <br>
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And of course the only principle that ICANN should look at is FoE,
no matter that its new gTLD policy is an instrument for private
(mostly US based) appropriation of cultural names, idea and
heritages from the world over... Lets not bother about such small
things... Cultural rights and such things are old outdated concepts
in this brave new world. <br>
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As a colleague said offline, this proposal could have been written
by ICANN.... I disagree only to the extent that in the present
circumstances even ICANN cant write this stuff - only some 'more
royal than the king' civil society can.... After all the overt
promises that were made to the Brazil President, obviously ICANN
needs to offer something more clear and concrete, lets see...<br>
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I am almost shocked that such a submission can be proposed to go in
the name of global civil society groups.... What must one think of
developing countries really, to propose this....<br>
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BestBits office holders, is there a minimum threshold below which
the BB platform is not offered for collecting endorsements?<br>
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Parminder <br>
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<div>These will be formally submitted to NETmundial on 8 March
2014, but between now and then we are gathering as many
endorsements for each of the statements as we can. So please I
would encourage everyone to read the statements, to endorse each
of them separately (if you agree with them, of course), and then
to spread the word through social media, email or word of mouth.</div>
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<div>Thanks again to everyone involved, and we really hope to see
your endorsement on each of the submissions soon.</div>
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