[governance] Caucus process comment

Jeanette Hofmann jeanette at wz-berlin.de
Thu Aug 4 12:47:19 EDT 2005



Carlos Afonso wrote:
> I agree with Ralph's cautious (and justified by hard experience!) approach.

What a relief. We grow up and learn from experience!
So, lets focus on Vittorio's other aspect concerning the function and 
structure of the forum?

Any other aspects we need to discuss before we revise the statement?

jeanette
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> --c.a.
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> Ralf Bendrath wrote:
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>>>Vittorio wrote:
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>>>>a sort of "bill of rights" of Internet users, ie the Internet version
>>>>of the UDHR,
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>>I strongly suggest to not do anything in this direction without close
>>coordination with the Human Rights Caucus. I know that Rikke Frank
>>Joergensen is currently finishing an edited volume (in Bill's MIT series)
>>on Human Rights in the Information Society. There is a lot of stuff out
>>there already.
>>Another thing is the debate around communication rights that might start
>>again then. Not sure if this would mess things up or bring in some
>>perspectives...
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>>Wolfgang replies:
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>>>This could be good idea and initiative. We have Barlows Declaration of 
>>>Cyberindependence, which needs some streamlining after eight years.
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>>The Barlow declaration is a historical document from the heights of cyber
>>self-regulation. I don't think it can simply be updated under current
>>circumstances.
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>>Pragmatically speaking, I would recommend to start from the documents this
>>caucus has already produced and polish those so everyone more or less agrees.
>>
>>Everything further is a bit too much work for now and as I said needs more
>>coordination with other caucuses. We could / should keep that project in
>>mind for PrepCom3 and the summit, as we will probably need an independent
>>CS document for the summit again.
>>
>>Ralf
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