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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Date:
Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:48:47 +0200<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>From:
<span class=SpellE>Vittorio</span> <span class=SpellE>Bertola</span>
<vb@bertola.eu.org><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Subject:
[governance] Rights (was Re: oversight)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>To:
Milton Mueller <mueller@syr.edu><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Cc:
WSIS Internet Governance Caucus <governance@lists.cpsr.org><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Message-ID:
<434D4C7F.3060602@bertola.eu.org><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Content-Type:
text/plain; <span class=SpellE>charset</span>=utf-8; format=flowed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-ansi-language:IT'>Il giorno mar, 11-10-2005 alle 18:10 -0400, Milton
Mueller ha scritto:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-ansi-language:IT'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>>I
think we would emphatically agree that the nature of these rules must <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>>be
defined by civil society and private sector, not just governments. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>>In
other words, the concept of "oversight" has to be conceived in a way <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>>that
makes its purpose _the protection of the rights of the general <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>>population
of Internet users and suppliers_,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I'll
digress a little about this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>When
I raised the "bill of Internet rights" idea to this list, it didn't
fly. However, I did so because I knew that some people in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region> really intended to push it to the <st1:City
w:st="on">Summit</st1:City>, even if they perhaps weren't fully aware of all
the procedural bits and pieces of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Summit</st1:City></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>So,
there now is an appeal going on in five languages, though mostly through
offline channels (they however told me they're working on a website). It was
launched by the Italian MP <span class=SpellE>Fiorello</span> <span
class=SpellE>Cortiana</span> (the one who spoke at the WSIS Workshop at the
ICANN meeting in Rome, for those of you who were there) and the current list of
subscribers includes Gilberto Gil, Larry <span class=SpellE>Lessig</span> and
Richard Stallman, plus a long list of Italians (full list at </span><span
lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ansi-language:
ES'><a href="http://web.fiorellocortiana.it/html/"
title="http://web.fiorellocortiana.it/html/"><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><span title="http://web.fiorellocortiana.it/html/">http://web.fiorellocortiana.it/html/</span></span></a></span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> ).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I
think they will try to get the EU officially endorse the idea, even if it looks
hard given the timeframes. In any case, I imagine they will try to organize
some related event at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Summit</st1:City></st1:place>.
So, as a caucus, we might think whether and how we want to react.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I
have received an English version of the appeal, and even if they didn't take my
generous offer to polish the wording, I will post it here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>=====<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>All
World Countries will be meeting in November in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Tunis</st1:State></st1:place> under the aegis of the United Nations
for the World Summit on Information Society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New"'>It<span class=GramE>?s</span></span></span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> a great chance. The
conclusion of this meeting should be a document ushering in a new Era: a
Charter of the Rights of the Net.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The
internet is the widest Public Space Humanity has ever known.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>A
space where everybody can have their say, acquire knowledge, create ideas and
not just information, exercise their right to critic, to dialogue, to take part
in the wider political life and in so doing try and build a different World of
which everybody can claim to be a citizen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>But
the internet is also creating a new, big redistribution of Power.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New"'>That<span class=GramE>?s</span></span></span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> why it is constantly under
threat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>In
the name of Security we restrict liberties.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>In
the name of a short-sighted Market logic we restrict the chance of a fair
access to Knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Big
enterprises and authoritarian States try to impose new forms of censorship.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The
internet must not become an instrument to better control the millions of people
who use it, to get personal data from people against their will, to use
property rights to restrict new forms of knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>To
avert these dangers we can not just be confident that the Internet will show
its natural resiliency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>It
is high time to state some Principles as part of the new Planetary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Citizenship:
freedom of access, freedom of use, right to knowledge, respect of the privacy,
recognition of new common Goods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Only
the full respect of these Constitutional Rights will allow us to find the
correct democratic balance between the needs of security, the role of the
Market and Intellectual Property.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New"'>It<span class=GramE>?s</span></span></span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> time for these Principles
to be recognized by a Charter of Rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>We
ask all men and women being part of <span class=GramE>the ?People</span> of the
net? <span class=GramE>to</span> take part in this project with their freedom
and creativity, and to let their voce be heard by their respective Governments
to support it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-ansi-language:IT'>=====<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-ansi-language:IT'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-ansi-language:IT'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-ansi-language:IT'>vb.
[Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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title="http://bertola.eu.org/"><span lang=IT style='mso-ansi-language:IT'><span
title="http://bertola.eu.org/">http://bertola.eu.org/</span></span></a></span><span
lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ansi-language:
IT'> <- Prima o poi...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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