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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Just to add that Fadi’s (and the CS’s statement’s) position that either you have MSism or you have the ITU is a complete red herring. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The UN (as with the ITU) were of their time and gave enormous service on behalf of the global public interest. With the Internet we have entered into a new era, one where principles of representation as through the UN and the UN’s state oriented structure is perhaps no longer an appropriate and effective protector/proponent of the global public interest. That doesn’t mean that we should discard the “we the peoples” democratic basis of the UN Charter but rather that we should find alternative and effective ways of manifesting those necessary democratic impulses in this new era and with new mechanisms and processes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The alternative is not the ITU vs. MSism but rather democratic governance vs. governance by and for corporate and other “stakeholders” and of course our challenge is to find ways of designing and implementing the new forms, mechanisms and processes to respond to the new challenges and resources of democracy in a new Internet age.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:windowtext'>WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:windowtext;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:windowtext;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:windowtext;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='color:windowtext'>to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> parminder [mailto:parminder@itforchange.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 22, 2014 10:20 AM<br><b>To:</b> michael gurstein; 'Anne Jellema'; rhill@hill-a.ch<br><b>Cc:</b> bestbits@lists.bestbits.net; 'IRP'; governance@lists.igcaucus.org; forum@justnetcoalition.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [IRPCoalition] [JNC - Forum] [bestbits] Time-sensitive: 24 hour sign on period for ITU Plenipot joint recommendations<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>And if there indeed is real ignorance and people want to know what a neo-liberal model of global Internet governance looks like just read the below interview of the CEO of ICANN. He lays it all out rather well<br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/07/internet-operations-chief-snowden-disclosures-make-my-job-easier/">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/07/internet-operations-chief-snowden-disclosures-make-my-job-easier/</a><br><br>It is this model that the Best Bits statement helps push forward. There can simply be no doubt in it. <br><br>And people will need to choose which side they would want to be at this crucial juncture - on the side of slow ( perhaps even painfully slow) evolving democratic governance of our collective global affairs including the Internet, or shifting over to neoliberal governance by the elite.. And if they side with this structural shift to neolib governance today, it will be for keeps. We are in a real danger of loosing our democratic traditions. At the very least, this requires deep thinking on the part of all of us. <br><br>parminder <br><br>parminder <br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wednesday 22 October 2014 07:17 PM, michael gurstein wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Further to Parminder’s comments below.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I recently published a <a href="http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2014/10/19/democracy-or-multi-stakeholderism-competing-models-of-governance/">blogpost</a> (also please not the comments) where I argued that the democratic model of “governance by and for the people” is in direct conflict/competition with the multi-stakeholder model of “governance by and for stakeholders”.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I am fully aware that presenting these contrasting positions in such a way is highly simplistic but I also think that there is a value in simplicity particularly where it removes the obfuscation that often masks fundamental positions and values.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I think that the division within Civil Society and I would argue more broadly in the larger world between those who believe in a democratic approach to governance including in areas as central to our experience, well-being and future as the Internet and those who would give this governance over to decision making by those with specific “interests/stakes” in the outcome (and where the broad public interest if represented at all would be only one among many such competing “stakes”) is a fundamental one.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It is extremely disappointing to see such broad swathes of “civil society” and others opting for a position that does not support democracy and democratic governance however and in what manner that might be achieved.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>M</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> IRP [<a href="mailto:irp-bounces@lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org">mailto:irp-bounces@lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>parminder<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 21, 2014 9:06 PM<br><b>To:</b> Anne Jellema; <a href="mailto:rhill@hill-a.ch">rhill@hill-a.ch</a><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>; IRP; <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; <a href="mailto:forum@justnetcoalition.org">forum@justnetcoalition.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [IRPCoalition] [JNC - Forum] [bestbits] Time-sensitive: 24 hour sign on period for ITU Plenipot joint recommendations</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tuesday 21 October 2014 09:28 PM, Anne Jellema wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you, Parminder for the thoughtful criticisms. We're aware that different parts of civil society have well-founded reasons for holding different opinions on the role of the ITU, and we fully respect these. I was very pleased to see that JustNet has expressed its point of view in its own proposals for the Plenipot, which I found interesting and valuable. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>In that spirit, I would like to respond to a couple of your criticisms of our statement that I think don't reflect an entirely accurate reading of its content: <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- I think your claim that we are advocating unregulated free markets is unfair, since we state twice: "Each country should retain individual authority to regulate IP interconnection rates where necessary and advisable in order to ensure universal service and promote robust competition." The drafters include organisations that have been on the forefront of the fight for stronger net neutrality regulation at national and regional (EU) level.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- I don't agree that our statement fails to identify who should take responsibility for resolving key IG challenges; proposes the "withdrawal of all internet policy related agenda from the global governance stage"; or fails to acknowledge any important role for the ITU. We repeatedly stress the need for coordination and collaboration among UN agencies (including the ITU) and multistakeholder bodies; and refer several times to what we think are the ITU's critical roles in addressing the huge challenges ahead. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>That said, we agree that the reference to "ITU mission creep" was poorly judged, and the entire para should be deleted as proposed by Jeanette. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I sincerely hope that a respectful and informed exchange of views can continue among CSOs, along with the equally important effort to find the common ground between differing positions. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Dear Anne<br><br>Thanks for your response and engagement. I mean to further engage on this discussion. But my present email will only make one point, about the mutual respectfulness of any discussion, which your email mentions. I am not saying that you meant it in that manner, but I do often find a hyper sensitivity to political criticism in these circles and personalisation of it, here I mean personalisation in receiving political criticism. We must recognise that civil society work is a work of strong conviction and submersion in that conviction... People have a vision of the world they'd like to see, and there are forces that block the realisation of that vision. Obviously therefore, for anyone who really cares, the feelings involved are strong... And I mean, on all sides of what could become a political divide. And such a political divide is as possible, even likely, in the civil society space, as in the conventional political space. However, for instance in India, which has a rather high level of professional in traditional political space, at least at the national level, political personalities are able to be scathing and unsparing in terms of their political positions and counter positions without it being taken as being inappropriately uncivil or any such thing. <br><br>I probably should not be so defensive, but I say all this because many people here are simply too touchy. (I know that you come from a core political civil society background, and so I an really not talking about you.) I also say it because I and people that I work with feel that the present position that is being proposed on the BestBits platform a major political statement that we find extremely problematic and something that sets a solid tone for a neoliberal paradigm for the emerging Internet-mediated society. In that respect its impact on the world, especially in terms of democracy, equity and social justice is going to be far reaching, and these are the corner stone canons of our work. And therefore we will strongly contest it, with all means at our disposal. <br><br>I will separately respond to some substantive points in your above email. <br><br>best regards<br>parminder <br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Best<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Anne<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Richard Hill <<a href="mailto:rhill@hill-a.ch" target="_blank">rhill@hill-a.ch</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>I fully agree with Parminder's analysis and strongly support his comments.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Richard</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b> Forum [mailto:<a href="mailto:forum-bounces@justnetcoalition.org" target="_blank">forum-bounces@justnetcoalition.org</a>]<b>On Behalf Of </b>parminder<br><b>Sent:</b> mardi, 21. octobre 2014 12:47<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net" target="_blank">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>; <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; <a href="mailto:forum@justnetcoalition.org" target="_blank">forum@justnetcoalition.org</a>; IRP<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [JNC - Forum] [bestbits] Time-sensitive: 24 hour sign on period for ITU Plenipot joint recommendations</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>I have not had the chance to go into the long statement in detail. However, what I see as its main refrain is bothersome. It says yes there are many very important global Internet policy issues, and then says that the ITU should not take them up, but tells us nothing about who should take them up. This becomes a recipe for, or at least, towards a political governance free world, the kind one nowadays read about frequently in the documents of the World Economic Forum (read for instance its Global Redesign Initiative). <br><br>I am agnostic about whether ITU takes up at least some important Internet policy issues at the global level or some other democratic global body takes them up. However, it is not tenable that they be just left hanging out there, which only allows those who have the greatest default power on the Internet, mostly the US based economic and political establishment, to carry on consolidating their power. This statement for me is simply an expression of support for the Internet power status quo, and therefore I strongly oppose it.<br><br>To take a few examples (a more detailed critique will follow);<br><br>Perhaps the most disturbing part of the statement, from developing countries viewpoint, is tha which sanctifies unregulated global market models for global Internet inter-connectivity.... This is a major reversal from the stand of all developing countries and all progressive civil society at the WSIS, where unfair global interconnection regimes was one of the main 'development issues'. This statement seems to close that issue by declaring that such things be best left to free markets, with no regulatory framework, or even a normative/ principles framework. In any case, it is not clear how even working on the interconnection issue, an express mandate for ITU from the WSIS is a 'mission creep' for the ITU. It appears that there is not one thing that ITU can do in 2014 which will not be called a mission creep. In the circumstances one thinks that the proponents of the statement should be bold and just ask for the closing down of the ITU. <br><br>Further, the statement says that the ITU should not work towards a treaty on cyber- security, an issue that has shaken the world post Snowden. Just today I read an interview with Snowden's colleague Laura Poitras about how little has really changed on the ground as far as mass surveillance by the five eyes is concerned. What other than a treaty that reigns in the conduct of the states in this regard can be a solution? Or have we simply given up and are ready to allow the powerful to do what they may? Alternatively, is there any other solution being thought of? Civil society must answer these questions. <br><br>The statement seems to suggest that the first committee of the UN Gen Assembly should keep doing the work on cyber security. That is quite surprising becuase by all means, the first committee’s work is much less participative (of other stakeholders) than even of the ITU. So, what is the rationale here, other than just to say ITU should not do it (we will see when we have to stop even the first committee from doing it, but right now the imperative is.... ). I am fine with the first committee doing it, but remember that any effort towards a cyber security treaty will require the expertise of ITU which is the agency that has hitherto dealt with this issue. Such an simply obstructionist attitude to global governance bespeaks of a movement towards a very unequal, unfair and unjust world. Progressive civil society must take note rather than blindly signing on this rather dangerous statement. <br><br>The statement says, we should not begin working on a cyber security treaty because there is no consensus on basic concepts and principles in the area.... Is there a greater consensus on the area of climate change, and so many other areas. Do we just give up in these areas? if not, why in the area of Internet governance? Consensus on concepts and principles emerge as a part of a process towards development of global principles and agreements and not a as a pre condition of them. This is universally known. One can understand why US wants to protect the status quo, but why civil society? <br><br>Again, this is simply a statement for maintaining the Internet power status quo... Dont do it at the ITU, but we wont tell you where to do either.... Supporting this statement in my view will simply be to support the global Internet status quo....<br><br>Yes, we need to reform the ITU, but seeking simple withdrawal of all Internet policy related agenda from global governance stage is very problematic. As this agenda is withdrawn from the global stage, the dominant political and economic forces get a free reign, and the little policy that needs to be made is made at plurilateral forums like the OECD, or the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP (see for instance, just the day before's news, <a href="http://infojustice.org/archives/33428" target="_blank">http://infojustice.org/archives/33428</a>, on how TPP seeks to regulate global IP TV transmissions). <br><br>Such statements as this one simply clear the way for such rule of the economically and politically powerful...<br><br>parminder<br> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tuesday 21 October 2014 02:08 AM, Anne Jellema wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear colleagues <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As you know, a fluid working group was formed after the IGF to try to come up with joint recommendations for the ITU Plenipot. We produced the open letter on transparency and participation in the Plenipot process itself, which many of you signed (thank you!). Our second and harder task was to develop positions on some of the most important substantive issues before the conference. The output of this second phase of our work is a 7 page lobby document that is now available for endorsement for the next 24 hours at:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red'><a href="http://bestbits.net/itu-plenipot-notes" target="_blank">http://bestbits.net/itu-plenipot-notes</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The fluid working group struggled to obtain the conference proposals on which to base our analysis and recommendations, both because of the ITU's restrictions on document access and because many Member States submitted their proposals quite late in the day. As a result, our drafting process has taken us hard up against the start of the Plenipot itself. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It is now very urgent to get this text in front of delegations, so we are opening it for endorsements rather than comment. If however someone has a red flag, "absolutely can't live with it" issue that prevents them from signing on, they should email me personally in the next 24 hours to propose an edit(s) to resolve this issue, and I will consult the other members of the ITU fluid working group on whether to accept this edit. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Due to the lack of time for comment and consensus, we are not presenting these recommendations in the name of Best Bits or on behalf of civil society in general but only on behalf of the specific organisations endorsing. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If you 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