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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Willie wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> I wasn't sure
whether <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Milton</st1:place></st1:City>'s
suggestion of looking at the analogy of the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> free software
movement meant getting an exact equivalent or rather<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> producing a
simulation of 'enhanced cooperation', which could include a<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> legal-type
instrument addressing the ideal-type public policy principles<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> for the management
of critical internet resources and then getting some<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> kind of rolling
symbolic buy in from governments...like an inverse of the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> bilateral free
trade agreements.. > <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>I think this is the only
way <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Milton</st1:place></st1:City>’s
suggestion can be interpreted - I mean as a broad ' legal-type instrument
addressing the ideal-type public policy principles'. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>However, there seems to
be a confusion whether the ‘enhanced cooperation’ on public policy
issues mandated in Tunis agenda is meant only for issues connected to ‘critical
internet resources’ or whether the term has a wider ambit covering all Internet
policy issues at the global level. A few posts in this string seem to suggest the
narrow conception of ‘enhanced cooperation’. My reading of the
document however is that it is clearly the later – though the language of
the document does shows the strains of a complexly negotiated document, where
some countries were going to great lengths in order to minimize any new public
policy roles at the global level. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Para</span></font></st1:place><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
58 and 59 clearly states that a broader rather than a narrow conception of public
policy is to be taken.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><b><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>58.<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font></b><![endif]><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
font-weight:bold'>We recognize</span></font></b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
that </span></font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Internet governance includes more than
Internet naming and addressing. It also includes other significant public
policy issues such as, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>inter alia</span></i>,
critical Internet resources, the security and safety of the Internet, and
developmental aspects and issues pertaining to the use of the Internet.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><b><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>59.<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font></b><![endif]><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
font-weight:bold'>We recognize </span></font></b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>that
Internet governance includes social, economic and technical issues including
affordability, reliability and quality of service. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Para</span></font></st1:place><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
60 says that many of these important public policy issues ‘require
attention and are not adequately addressed by the current mechanisms”. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Para 61 is very
important, though it is not often referred to in the post <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Tunis</st1:place></st1:State> period. It clearly speaks of
initiating an inclusive multi-lateral process. And it also speaks of a suitable
framework or mechanisms. Since this is in continuation of the concerns about
important ‘public policy issues requiring attention’ (para 60) such
a process, framework and mechanism is clearly about IG related public policy
issues. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>61</span></font></b><b><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
font-weight:bold'>.</span></font></b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>We are convinced</span></b> that there is a need to
initiate, and reinforce, as appropriate, a transparent, democratic, and
multilateral process, with the participation of governments, private sector,
civil society and international organizations, in their respective roles. This
process could envisage creation of a suitable framework or mechanisms, where
justified, thus spurring the ongoing and active evolution of the current
arrangements in order to synergize the efforts in this regard. </span></font><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Apparently after this ‘agreement’
on higher level principles and broad directions things were unable to work
towards a clear process, and a somewhat loose concept of ‘enhanced cooperation’
was introduced. However when it first appears in para 69 it is still about a
broad and inclusive conception of public policy issues, as above<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>69. We
further recognize</span></font></b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> the need for enhanced
cooperation in the future, to enable governments, on an equal footing, to carry
out their roles and responsibilities, in international public policy issues
pertaining to the Internet, but not in the day-to-day technical and operational
matters, that do not impact on international public policy issues. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Only in para 70 does the phrase</span></font><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
‘</span></font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>public policy issues
associated with the coordination and management of critical Internet resources’
appear</span></font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>70.</span></font></b><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> Using
relevant international organizations, such cooperation should include the
development of globally-applicable principles on public policy issues
associated with the coordination and management of critical Internet resources.
In this regard, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>we call upon</span></b> the organizations
responsible for essential tasks associated with the Internet to contribute to
creating an environment that facilitates this development of public policy
principles.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>However, here too this phrase about
critical Internet resources is meant to be inclusive of these issues, and not
exclusive of others. It is a call for ICANNs of this world to heed. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>I think it is evident that the <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tunis</st1:place></st1:State> agenda is clear on
calling for an inclusive multilateral and multi-stakeholder process to address
all IG related public policy issues and not only those related to critical Internet
resources. The term ‘enhanced cooperation’ used later is also
inclusive of all such issues. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Parminder <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Parminder Jeet Singh<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> -----Original Message-----<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> From: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">wcurrie@apc.org</st1:PersonName>
[mailto:<st1:PersonName w:st="on">wcurrie@apc.org</st1:PersonName>]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 4:13 AM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">governance@lists.cpsr.org</st1:PersonName>;
Parminder<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> Subject: RE: [governance] ITU IG Resolution<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> 'An early and pro-active engagement with the 'public policy and
its<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> institutional arrangement issues' can still serve to give a
greater handle<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> to the civil society to promote (and safeguard) public interest.'<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> I agree with Parminder that we need to engage the issue directly
and think<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> Adam's suggestion of a letter to Ntin Desai from the IGC is a good
start,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> followed by engaging the new UN SG and ITU SG in the new year.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> I wasn't sure whether <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Milton</st1:place></st1:City>'s
suggestion of looking at the analogy of the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> free software movement meant getting an exact equivalent or
rather<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> producing a simulation of 'enhanced cooperation', which could
include a<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> legal-type instrument addressing the ideal-type public policy
principles<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> for the management of critical internet resources and then getting
some<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> kind of rolling symbolic buy in from governments...like an inverse
of the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> bilateral free trade agreements..<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> the frontier on this issue is still there: USG, some developed
country<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> governments, ICANN, ISOC and the private sector on one side vs EU,
ITU,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> most developing country governments and civil society on the other..<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> is this a case of maximising support around a single narrow set of
demands<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> reagarding internet resources or putting together the broad range
of<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> public policy issues on IG broadly understood.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> My inclination is to go for the latter but use what was narrowly
agreed -<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> enhanced cooperation - as the 'wedge' issue. Broadening it would
put<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> pressure on the developing countries that are uncomfortable with
rights<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> issues, but it may be possible to extract some of the democratic<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> developing countries to take a lead such as <st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Brazil</st1:place></st1:country-region> and South<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>..and have three frontiers
- 1. the hegemonic <st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> bloc
(USG, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
ICANN, private sector, 2. the democratic bloc (EU, democratic<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> developing countries, civil society with Amnesty International)
and 3. the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> authoritarian bloc (ITU, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>, Iran etc)- this, of course,
may just be<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> wishful thinking aloud...when one thinks say of the rigidity of
the G77 or<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> how <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> is
operating within the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>
sphere of influence over nuclear and<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> economic issues...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> willie<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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