<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="1"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Hello Wolfgang Kleinwaehter and All,</font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="1"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Here are my comments on the </font></font></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="1">Speech
at the ICANN Meeting in Cairo, 6 November 2008 by</font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="1"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="1"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Hamadoun
Toure, Secretary General of the ITU</font></font></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="1"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">.
When I read what I wrote, I am surprised that some of these comments
sound intense. Part of what is written might not even be fair, but I am
posting it as written. Please take this sufficiently factored down,
because I was not there at Cairo to "feel" his speech. The comments are
based on my impressions from the speech transcript. It is based on
the superficial knowledge that the ITU places the interests of the
Telecom companies and the Governments paramount. <br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="1"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Also,
I have picked up portions of the Secretary General's speech for
comments. In this critique, what is missing are positive remarks that
are due. It is positive as a gesture on the part of the ITU Secretary
General to have extended an arm to work with ICANN and to pronounce a
desire to be committed to the mutli-stakeholder approach. But in this
message I have chosen to read between the lines of the Secretary
General's transcript, just to raise some points for discussion.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="1"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Comments:<br>
</font></font></font></font></p><br><i><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">since 1865, since the creation of the telegraph. And we
are very proud of the way the organization has been able to adapt
itself over the years and decades and centuries, from telegraph to
telephone to teletypewriters, to radio and television. We are talking
about digital broadcasting now. And very soon, 3D television. We are
talking about the emergence of new technologies.</font></font></font></font></i><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><b><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">ITU adopts itself to own all inter-human communication in any form.<br>
</font></font></font></font></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I
was telling to many people from developing countries who were
fighting for Internet governance: "Before you get the
governance, get the Internet first." </span></i><br></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Yes,
that allows various interests to give shape to the internet in a manner
that is most advantageous for commerce and government. After that any
process of debate on Governance wouldn't be able to reverse the
practices established<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span></b><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" align="justify">
<font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></font></p><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ICANN
is just ten years old but it's done a great job. </span></i><br></font></font></font></font><br><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><b><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Yes, ITU is older. We notice that the ITU has governed Communications around the world for over 143 years.<br>
</font></font></font></font></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">we had a very
successful WSIS. For the first time, a UN body was organizing a
summit, where you didn't have demonstrations outside. </span></i><br></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><b><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Business
and Government kept the Civil Society locked out in several
international conventions that were either in the Governments'
Diplomatic Territory or Business' Commercial Territory. The Internet is
Civil Sphere and the Governments were the latecomers. What ought to
have been said here is that the Civil Society included Government and
Business and not vice versa. <br></font></font></b></font></font></p><i><br></i><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Every time a Web browser
establishes a secure connection to a server, ITU's work on PKIs,
public key infrastructures, and encryption keys, is used. Our
pioneering work on electronic authentication enabled jurisdictions
around the world to recognize e-mail as legal documents and to give
legal studies to electronic signatures. </span></i><br></font></font></font></font><br><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>I
can't help notice that most of the work that the ITU has done relates
to "authentication", "security" etc. to enable "jurisdiction". Isn't
the ITU working on making the Internet what it is not?</b><br></font></font></font></font><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><br></i></font></font><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We [ITU and ICANN] just have to learn to know each other better so that we
can like each other and work together. And the main reason why I'm
here is that is my motto: "</span></i><br></font></font></font></font><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>This sounds dangerous. The DOC-supervised ICANN and the inter-governmental ITU aligned together !</b><br>
</font></font></font></font></p><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">IGF is just going around and around,
avoiding the topics, and becomes sometimes a waste of time. </span></i><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></font></font></font><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>I
agree. I fully agree. One reason is the limitation of the UN mandate to
the IGF. IGF does not even have recommendary 'powers' and the IGF
process is in a sense a huge distraction away from the policy changes
and new Internet legislations that get enacted in bits and pieces
(leading to an untold comprehensive whole) in different parts of the
world - for e.g. the move by UK to direct ISPs to retain traffic
records for two years. IGF requires a complete re-redesign.</b><br><br></font></font></font></font></p><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="color: rgb(76, 17, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Next </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(76, 17, 48);">year, ITU will</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">organize the World Policy
Forum, which addresses a number of Internet-related public-policy
issues, ranging from cybersecurity and data protection to
multilingualism and the ongoing development of Internet.</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"></span><br></font></font></font></font><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify">
<b>World Policy Forum? For the ITU to psychologically claim its stake as the ICT super-authority?</b><br><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(76, 17, 48);"></span></font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><i><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(76, 17, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">hope you
will not tell me here, "Don't talk about Internet." .... we need to talk about it. And you
shouldn't see us as an enemy. I always said that I have enough on my
plate in ITU and there is no need to add more. </span><br></font></font></font></font></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>I don't get the feeling that ITU is content with its sphere of influence.</b><br>
</font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> <i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If you want an Internet connection for a business or a
house, they will ask you first if you have a telephone line. </span></i><br></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Why
do I need an ITU regulated and monitored phone line to qualify for
Internet Access? Why isn't the Community doing enough to bring in
alternate technologies?</b><br></font></font></font></font></p><br><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>During
the debates of the WSIS, when people were talking about Internet
governance, I was telling them, "Get Internet first before you
talk about getting the governance of it." I was giving simple
example, comparing Internet and telecommunications to trucks or cars
and highways. It's not because you own the highways that you're going
to own all the trucks or cars running on them, and certainly not the
goods that they are transporting, or vice versa. It's a simple
analogy. </i><br></font></font></font></font><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Great.
The road analogy isn't all that perfect as an analogy for the Internet.
I will let it go to say that those who owns the roads get to decide who
rides and who doesn't and gets to decide what to charge as toll fee. </b><br></font></font></font></font></p><i><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br>
....</font></font><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> the relationship between the
Internet and the telecommunication world... And they are condemned to
work together. It's a condemned marriage. So better enjoy it. If you
know that you're not going to get divorced in any case because you're
condemned to live together, you better find a way to enjoy each
other, and have kids in the process.</font></font></font></font></i><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>The
Internet CAN technically divorce the telecoms or even scale up to
include telecoms services as part of the internet. It is a condemned
marriage alright, but if one partner is too difficult and drives the
other to the wall, a divorce isn't technically infeasible.</b><br></font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>It
has been alleged in some corners of the ITU that ITU wishes to govern
the Internet. And I have specifically said that I categorically deny
that. </i><br></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>When someone in government or someone connected to government "denies" something, it is always true. </b><br>
</font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">And I say today again to you, it is not the case. My intention
as Secretary-General of ITU is not to govern the Internet. But we
need to work together, because there are developing countries that
are in need of access. At the end of this year, we'll have four
billion mobile telephones in the world. While we try to bridge the
gap in telephony, we have to ensure that no new gap is created in
Internet and no new gap is created in broadband for us to help other
sectors to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Therefore, there is
a need for these two societies to work together. Almost half of the
people in this room are very active participants in the ITU. And,
therefore, I think there is room for us to know each other and to
understand.</font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">ITU's
role as a multilateral forum for debate is to serve as a source of
impartial expert information and guidance, just as we have done for
nearly 145 years. We strive to help all parties work together to
clarify the issues and build consensus on the most effective ways of
promoting the evolution and uptake of this powerful resource. And we
have that capability. We are proud of that culture. It's the only
organization where you will have countries that are at war on other
fronts, are supporting each other with common resolutions, without
the people supporting those resolutions being fired. I'm proud to say
that we are the only organization where you have Iran supporting "his
friends", I quote, of the United States, or vice versa and the
people who have supported that are still alive. It happens on a daily
basis. We never had any Palestinian-Israeli crisis inside the ITU.
They share spectrums. So we are in a position to work with everyone,
because we have a technical approach to issues. <br></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Impressive. But aren't you bidding to take over the internet by saying all this ?</b><br>
</font></font></font></font></p><i><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></font></i><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>ITU is also actively encouraging the
industry-wide move to IPv6. Again, looking on the Web all of last
week, I've seen numerous attacks on the ITU for having pronounced the
world IPv6.This is a concern for all of us. Every mobile phone will
have an IP address, every fridge, every car, it's an inevitable
thing. </i><br></font></font></font></font><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>What
concerns me is the fact that IPV6 seems to have obviated (or made
impossible) Network Address Translation. This means that everything
that I ever say on the Internet is linked to my unique, unchangeable
IPV6 address. My computer has an unchanging, permanent IPV6 address. My
refrigerator and my MP4 player will have a traceable IPV6 address.
Where is my privacy? Perhaps I will be able to borrow my refrigerator's
IPV6 address to send an email to my top secret girl friend and in case
my wife gets hold of that message I could blame it on the refrigerator?
(this comment in particular without in-depth knowledge of the technical
architecture of IPV6) <br>
</b></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">In
2005, WSIS mandated ITU to take a lead role in building confidence
and security in the use of ICTs. I put in place a high-level expert
group last year to study the issue and report to the council, with
the final report this year. We are gaining a momentum as we move
steadily towards agreements on an international set of principles and
best-practice approaches that countries around the world can follow
to promote cybersecurity.</font></font></font></font></p><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font><b><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Security
concerns are center stage on the ITU agenda, pushing the need to build
(user) Confidence out of view. What has ITU done on the privacy front,
to protest against legislations such as directives by UK to ISPs to
retain email logs for two years or directives by governments to
facilitate recording of mobile phone conversations? </font></font></b>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><i><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Estonian network was down for two days. .. And during
the uprising between Georgia and Russia, we have noticed a large
number of botnets or cyber attacks between the two countries. That is
scary. ...</font></font></font></font></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><b><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Thank you for drawing attention to the fact that it is sometimes </font></font></font></font></b><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><b><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Governments that cause or engineer some of the major cyber incidents?<br>
</font></font></b></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><i><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Our children, who spend most of
their time in cyberspace, are not taught the basic behaviours in the
cyberspace. When they go out in the street, we tell them, "Be
careful. Don't talk to strangers, don't accept candy from someone you
don't know. It could be a drug that could kill you." But they're
out there in cyberspace without telling them what to do or how to
behave. </font></font></font></font></i><br>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Yes, we will make them paranoid.</b><br> </font></font></font></font>
</p><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><br></i></font></font><i><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The potential of
the Internet to accelerate social and economic development in the
world's poorest regions is perhaps its greatest asset. I hope you
will support ITU in our ongoing effort to see that everyone
everywhere has a chance to benefit from that potential for the
betterment of our planet, and for humankind, for all humankind.</font></font></font></font></i><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Sounds rhetorical.</b><br>
</font></font></font></font>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>We will never counter terrorism if we
don't have a harmonized way of tracing back the IP address. .</i>..</font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>How
would I trust the Law and Order agencies to restrict use of these
technologies only against terrorists and criminals and not against the
unsuspecting citizens ?</b><br></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></font></p>
<i><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">ZAHID
JAMIL, DNS Resolution Center Pakistan:</font></font></font></font></i>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">I
am a lawyer from Pakistan. Your Excellency, I heard you talk about
the important role that ITU can play in everything from IPv6, the
coordination of the IP-based networks, cybersecurity, privacy, data
protection, cybersecurity, cyberterrorism, multilingualism, IDNs, a
whole bunch of things. My only question is, to what extent do you
think ITU would have any restrictions, because it seems it would
probably become the regulator in convergence of everything. So is
there a limitation you can see as far as the ITU's scope?</font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Touche</b>'<br>
</font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><i><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">WOLFGANG
KLEINWÄCHTER, University of Aarhus</font></font></font></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">what is the
future of civil society in the ITU? ITU has nearly 200 member states
and more than 700 private sector members. When civil society becomes
an equal partner in this setting?</font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Is
it really possible to believe that the Civil Society would be
represented at the ITU so broadly as to balance the 191 member srates
and 700 private sector companies? ITU is ITU. It could come to the IGF
to represent business and government. If Civil Society focuses its
effort on getting better represented at the ITU, some day the IGF could
become a part of the ITU.</b><br> </font></font></font></font>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><i><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">HAMMADOUN
TOURE, Secretary General of the ITU</font></font></font></font></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Government is in an
advisory role. Advisory role! You advise me and I am free to take
your advice? </i><br></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><b>Advice
from Government always comes with the subtle posture of "It is just an
advice or a suggestion, but remember where it comes from"</b><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><i><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">During the WSIS process, we had a
problem that some member states have genuinely raised. We have
countries like China. During a PrepCom in Japan we spent three days
out of four not working because there were some so-called civil
society, NGO that were government officials from Taiwan. The Chinese
delegation came with their photos and information on them from the
Web that they are government officials, and they registered as NGOs.
It's a problem.</font></font></font></font></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Thank
you for bringing that up. This is really an issue about how the Civil
Society is constituted at least in parts. We need to clean up a little
bit.</b><br></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><i>HAMMADOUN
TOURE, Secretary General of the ITU</i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Now, let's be
clear. Government cannot get into individual people's privacy. </i><br></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><b><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Please, don't. <br>
</font></font></font></font></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><b><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></font></b></p>
<br><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">...... <i> I'm telling you my intention is not, from ITU,
to try and take over Internet. </i><br></font></font></font></font><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>When
someone in government or someone from an inter-governmental
organization talks of an absence of an intention, there is always an
intention. <br><br>Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<br></b></font></font></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">>Interested in analysis of how we can avoid this.
Certainly some parties wish to avoid meaningful discussion, and are we
diplomatically sweeping under the carpet >all the important issues (lest
anyone take offence?)</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
</div><p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Ian, you point to an important issue, and
danger.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Some of us have been arguing for long that
the IGF is civil society's best bet in many ways. It is a new-age organization
that is relatively representative of people and groups across the world, and
still has been able to maintain some distance from strong statist control on
the one side and corporate control on the other. </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">However, many others in the civil society,
including within the IGC, have been over-cautious in putting our weight behind strengthening
the IGF in all ways that we can – whether the issue has been of some substantive
(and not merely advisorial) capacity of the core IGF group (currently named
MAG) or doing substantive inter-sessional work and giving some kind of real, if
non-binding, outputs on key IG issues. </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I think that we as a group may need to
revisit our positions on this issue, or al least discuss them to see if new
directions need to be taken in view of current and emergent realities. </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">It is a fact that the IGF may be in real
trouble, and in the danger of being sidelined as an annual conference that no
one of any real importance takes any note of. We must review what would it mean
in terms of civil society and progressive interests. In light of such a review
we may need to have clearer common positions of how we want to engage with the
IGF, and how we want to see it evolve. Such a review is an even more urgent
imperative in view of the forthcoming process of IGF review which will start in
earnest immediately after the IGF, Hyderabad. What gets said and discussed at Hyderabad
may have some important implications for this review.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Parminder </span></font></p>
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<p><b><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: windowtext; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: windowtext;"> <a href="mailto:gov-bounces@wsis-gov.org" target="_blank">gov-bounces@wsis-gov.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:gov-bounces@wsis-gov.org" target="_blank">gov-bounces@wsis-gov.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Ian Peter<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, November 09, 2008
11:02 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>;
'Dr. Francis MUGUET'<div><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> 'WSIS Civil Soc. WG on
Information Networks Governance'<br>
</div><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Gov 586] Re:ITU and
ICANN - a loveless forced marriage Re: [governance] ITU & ICANN in Cairo</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: windowtext;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The telling statement from ITU being "I am
personally of the opinion that the IGF is continuously going round in circles
and avoiding issues – it is becoming more and more a waste of time."</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Interested in analysis of how we can avoid this.
Certainly some parties wish to avoid meaningful discussion, and are we
diplomatically sweeping under the carpet all the important issues (lest anyone
take offence?)</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My fear here is that the outcomes if IGF doesn't
succeed in addressing the real issues are worse than those if it does succeed.
Balkanisation or globalisation? Take your pick….</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: windowtext; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: windowtext;"> Dr. Francis MUGUET [mailto:<a href="mailto:muguet@mdpi.net" target="_blank">muguet@mdpi.net</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> 09 November 2008 15:44<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>;
Wolfgang<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> WSIS Civil Soc. WG on Information
Networks Governance<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> ITU and ICANN – a
loveless forced marriage Re: [governance] ITU & ICANN in Cairo</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: windowtext;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dear Wolfgang<br>
<br>
Interesting to notice a press analysis of Touré's speech, most notably about
the IGF.<br>
<br>
The statement from Touré has not been unnoticed.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><font color="black" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-GB">Coming back to what we do with ICANN, we also participate
actively in the work of Internet Governance Forum, which was established as the
result of the multistakeholder deliberations at the WSIS. I personally believe
that the IGF is just going around and around, avoiding the topics, and becomes
sometimes a waste of time. We need to address issues frankly and try to solve
them. And that's why I thought I should be here to talk to you here, so that we
learn to know each other better. Next year, ITU will organize the World Policy
Forum, which addresses a number of Internet-related public-policy issues,
ranging from cybersecurity and data protection to multilingualism and the
ongoing development of Internet. I hope you will not tell me here, "Don't
talk about Internet." It's an issue for everyone.</span></font></i></p>
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Best Francis<br>
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<a href="http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/print/111914" target="_blank">http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/print/111914</a></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">7 November 2008, 12:30</span></font></p>
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<h1><b><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="6"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">ITU and ICANN – a loveless forced marriage</span></font></b></h1>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ITU
Secretary General Hamadoun Touré has called for better collaboration between
the <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">International Telecommunication Union[1]</span></b>
(ITU) and the <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers[2]</span></b> (ICANN). "Our members have unnecessarily
attacked and criticised each other and I think we should put an end to
that," said Touré on Thursday at the 33rd ICANN meeting in Cairo. According to
Touré, the two organisations need to get to know each other better and learn to
love each other, as telecommunications and the internet are ultimately
condemned to a "forced marriage".</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Despite
the outstretched hand, the ITU Secretary General did not spare the criticism in
his first appearance at an ICANN meeting. Touré made it clear to the assembled
experts that he saw his organisation as playing the dominant role in the forced
marriage and made his opinion of the other party clear – provocatively
describing ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee as purely cosmetic.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
depth of the chasm between the two – the UN organisation, which has its
roots in the telecommunications world, and the quasi-internet-regulator ICANN
– was stressed by a series of further statements in the half-hour talk
given by the head of the ITU. Touré repeatedly spoke of the "war"
between the two organisations. According to Touré, who was elected in 2006,
"The best way to win a war, is to prevent it."</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In
the course of his 'marriage proposal', he referred extensively to the ITU's
outstanding role. Key topics for his organisation, he noted, include the
internationalisation of domains, something with which ICANN is currently
engaged, the <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">transition to IPv6[3]</span></b>,
standardisation for the all-IP <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Next
Generation Network[4]</span></b> (NGN), cyber-security, the fight against
online terrorism and child protection online.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Touré
rejected concerns that the ITU was appointing itself as global regulator of
internet resources and processes, "The ITU has clear boundaries. We do not
perform the operative business." However, he underlined the organisation's
demand, set out in its <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cybersecurity
Agenda[5]</span></b>, to be responsible for a global framework in the fight
against online terrorism and criminality. He also defended the controversial <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">IP traceback[6]</span></b> standard proposal.
"There is not one country which isn't doing it, it's just that each
country is doing it differently," said Touré.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Touré
also rejected criticism that the ITU operates behind closed doors. He stated
that the organisation has around 700 sector members from the telecommunications
industry and also admits NGOs as members. Touré also praised the ITU's openness
– a nod to the <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">World Summit on the Information Society[7]</span></b>
(WSIS). The summit, organised under ITU auspices, is, according to Touré, the
first UN summit at which civil society has also been invited to sit at the
table, rather than demonstrating outside.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In
the same breath, Touré expressed strong criticism of the <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Internet Governance Forum[8]</span></b> (IGF), which
was called into being by the WSIS, "I am personally of the opinion that
the IGF is continuously going round in circles and avoiding issues – it
is becoming more and more a waste of time." Therefore, the ITU is planning
a global forum for internet policy next year as a rival event.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Touré
also fired a further undiplomatic broadside at the work performed by
governments within ICANN. "The Governmental Advisory Committee is ICANN's
weak point," said Touré. His criticism was directed at the advisory
function of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) in developing rules for
the domain name system. "If someone gives me advice, I am free to take it
or leave it." The ICANN's GAC is therefore nothing more than
"cosmetic", noted Touré forthrightly.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In
a short statement following Touré's speech, the Brazilian government
representative on the GAC demanded, in the name of his and the Argentinian
government, the "strengthening of the GAC". Latvian diplomat Janis
Karklins, re-elected as GAC chairman, by contrast noted that the ITU and ICANN
operated according to very different political models, "From the viewpoint
of an international organisation, the ICANN model may appear weak, because
governments are merely advisory, whilst in an international organisation they
run the show." ICANN is, he opined, based on the novel idea of
collaboration between interested parties. He noted that both models have their
advantages and disadvantages, and that governments need to learn to operate
within both models. </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(<i><i><font face="Times New Roman">Monika Ermert</font></i></i>)</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">lghp[9]</span></b>)</span></font></p>
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<p><b><b><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">URL of this Article:</span></font></b></b><br>
<a href="http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/111914" target="_blank">http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/111914</a>
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<p><b><b><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Links in this Article:</span></font></b></b><br>
[1] <a href="http://www.itu.int/" target="_blank">http://www.itu.int/</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://www.icann.org" target="_blank">http://www.icann.org</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/OECD-member-states-throw-their-weight-behind-IPv6--/110960" target="_blank">http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/OECD-member-states-throw-their-weight-behind-IPv6--/110960</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Generation_Networking" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Generation_Networking</a><br>
[5] <a href="http://www.itu.int/osg/csd/cybersecurity/gca/" target="_blank">http://www.itu.int/osg/csd/cybersecurity/gca/</a><br>
[6] <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10040152-38.html" target="_blank">http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10040152-38.html</a><br>
[7] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSIS" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSIS</a><br>
[8] <a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/" target="_blank">http://www.intgovforum.org/</a><br>
[9] <a href="mailto:lghp@heise-online.co.uk" target="_blank">mailto:lghp@heise-online.co.uk</a></p>
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<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">find attached the statement of ITU DG Toure during the recent ICANN meeting in Cairo and the discussion. This was a very interesting dialogue on the concept and understanding of the principle of "multistakeholderism". A very good piece whith very clear and frank language which will certainly provoke discussion and could be an interesting starting point for a new conceptual debate on what "multistakholderism" is, why we witness a clash of cultures in Internet policy development and how the old model of an hierachical top down IG organisation and the new model of a network bottom up MS organisation can or can not collaborate and coexist in the global diplomacy of the 21st century. </span></font></pre>
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