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On 21/10/2014 9:04 pm, parminder wrote:<br>
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BTW, as I mentioned above, so much of 'global' Internet issues get
taken up today by the OECD's CICCP.... You proposal call for
making ITU CWG-PP multistakeholder. Interesting, and I have asked
this question often, I have never seen the civil society groups
involved with OECD's CICCP work - which included a lot of those
who have signed on this present ITU related statement - seek
making the CICCP multistakeholder.... Would this not count as
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It is already putatively multi-stakeholder, though it's a different
and lesser implementation of multi-stakeholderism than those of
other Internet governance bodies such as ICANN and the IGF (though
closer to the former than the latter). There was a big fight to get
it to open up as much as it has, with the creation of the CSISAC. I
agree that since then, we have been muted in our calls to improve it
further - though we have made some noise asking OECD to support
CSISAC better. Not only the OECD needs to improve its
implementation of multi-stakeholderism, but other regional bodies
like APEC need to become multi-stakeholder too - it's a long battle
on multiple fronts. So far I'm focussed on only some of those, like
TPP, which you've already identified. Also important is for us to
present a clear standard of what kind of multi-stakeholderism we
want, which was the reason for attempting to use LiquidFeedback to
develop such a standard that civil society could broadly support
(this has faltered, but I am still committed to seeing it through).<br>
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The conception that the distributed, multi-stakeholder ideal for
Internet governance is a neoliberal fantasy, in distinction to the
so-called democratic/statist model, is quite bogus, by the way - but
I'm not going to jump back into that debate right now. Very happy
to leave that to Niels and Stephanie who have replied so far.<br>
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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