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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>We are also seeking co-sponsorship / participation in the proposed
workshop on ‘governance of critical internet resources – exploring commons
and public interest framework’. As said earlier it is already
co-sponsored by APC, and RITS apart from IT for Change. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>We especially welcome private sector and Internet community participation.
Can any IGC member put me in contact with/ or direct me to the appropriate person
in ICANN for this…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Is ALAC and/or NCUC willing to co-sponsor. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Anyone from the private sector…..<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Parminder <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>IGF Workshop Proposal<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Governance of Critical Internet Resources - Exploring Commons and
Public Interest Based Frameworks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>1. Provide a concise formulation for the proposed workshop theme. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Issues and mechanisms of public policy regarding critical Internet
resources was a key concern at the WSIS, and remains an issue that is still a
work-in-progress. Part of the reason may be that the various parties
involved in this matter have remained most focused on who, rather than what.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>This issue remains dominated by concerns of whether private governance
systems are better; or governments should have a greater role; or an
international organization should step in; or whether the multi-stakeholder
principle is appropriate, and to what extent, and in what manner, it can be
applied in an area of substantive policy decisions. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>It may be better to approach the problem from a different direction,
focusing on what should drive and inform public policy regarding critical
Internet resources rather than who. This will entail an examination of the
normative principles which determines and/or should determine the governance of
critical Internet resources. Stability and security are the more obvious issues
here; development of the Internet may be an issue that requires greater elaboration,
and may involve policy trade-offs; and, beyond these, there are many other
issues of public interest that need to elaborated and articulated in the
context of IG . <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The proposed workshop will seek to explore the normative basis of
present systems of governance of critical Internet resources, and also
alternative normative bases or frameworks - like ones based on the 'commons'
principle, public interest principle, 'public nature' or 'public-ness' of the
Internet principle, and such. Obviously, such an exploration will also go into
examining what constitutes public interest in Internet Governance (IG), and
which publics are involved here. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>2. Why do you think the
proposed theme is important?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Exploring the normative basis of governance of resources critical to
what has become perhaps the most important social, economic and political
infrastructure of the world - the Internet - is obviously important. Taking up
such an exercise in a public forum, with full and open participation for all,
will help in the use and development of the Internet in the best public<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>interest. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>3. Describe the
workshop's conformity with the Tunis Agenda in terms of substance and the
mandate of the IGF.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Tunis Agenda in paragraph 72 outlining the role and mandate of the IGF,
in part (j) mentions its role to 'discuss, inter alia, issues relating to
critical Internet resources'. Tunis Agenda also speaks of the need for
developing public policy principles with regard to governance of critical
Internet resources.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=gray face="Arial Narrow"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";color:gray'>Parminder Jeet
Singh</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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