[governance] "technical community fails at multistakeholderism". really?

[Raul Echeberria]

El 08/10/2013, a las 11:19, Carlos A. Afonso escribió:

> This sentence is ambiguous: "They expressed strong concern over the undermining of the trust and confidence of Internet users globally due to recent revelations of pervasive monitoring 
> and surveillance."
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> It seems the "leaders" are more concerned by the revelations of surveillance than by surveillance itself.


Carlos

Maybe it is not the best wording, but I guess that it is very clear that  what is a matter of concern is the surveillance and its impact in the trust and confidence, not the revelations. 


Raúl 


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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> 
> Date: 08-10-2013 02:51 (GMT-03:00) 
> To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>,governance at lists.igcaucus.org 
> Subject: Re: [governance] "technical community fails at multistakeholderism". really? 
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> Its interesting to contrast this article with the Montevideo statement 
> released a little bit later from the technical community. As regards 
> criticisms of current internet governance structures, the technical 
> community added
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> " The leaders discussed the clear need to continually strengthen and evolve 
> these mechanisms, in truly substantial ways, to be able to address emerging 
> issues faced by stakeholders in the Internet."
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> Note "in truly substantial ways" - that's not accidental text, but a 
> recognition that significant change must take place.
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> Also note the main statements from Montevideo, which were
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> * They reinforced the importance of globally coherent Internet operations, 
> and warned against Internet fragmentation at a national level. They 
> expressed strong concern over the undermining of the trust and confidence of 
> Internet users globally due to recent revelations of pervasive monitoring 
> and surveillance.
> 
> *They identified the need for ongoing effort to address Internet Governance 
> challenges, and agreed to catalyze community-wide efforts towards the 
> evolution of global multistakeholder Internet cooperation.
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> *They called for accelerating the globalization of ICANN and IANA functions, 
> towards an environment in which all stakeholders, including all governments, 
> participate on an equal footing.
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> (there was also a statement re IPv6)
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> I mention these in this context because there appears to be a lot of common 
> ground with the technical community now as regards some of the big 
> priorities that must be addressed, and from this statement also a 
> recognition that they must improve current mechanisms "in truly substantial 
> ways".
> 
> That's good news!  There are things that should be criticised in current 
> structures, but there is a growing opportunity to work with the technical 
> community to address some major points of agreement. I hope that in our 
> discussions of the various viewpoints which legitimately are part of our 
> thinking on current structures we do not lose the opportunity to work 
> closely with the technical community on some over riding policy issues on 
> which we have substantial agreement.
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> Ian Peter
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> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 3:33 PM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> Subject: [governance] "technical community fails at multistakeholderism". 
> really?
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> http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/how-the-technical-community-fails-at-multi-stakeholderism
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> http://www.digitalnewsasia.com/insights/web-consortiums-failures-show-limits-of-self-regulation
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> forming a consensus that the usual splinter rump minority doesnt agree with 
> emphatically does not constitute any sort of failure of multistakeholderism
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> --srs
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