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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Ginger and others<br>
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Why should we not just take the text from the statement we made
proposing main themes for IGF Hyderabad that Bill has referred to( </font><a
href="http://www.igcaucus.org/node/8">http://www.igcaucus.org/node/8</a>
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follows. We can just update information of respective workshops on both
the topics that were held in Egypt, one of them IGC co-sponsored. In
nay case we have little time left to finalist the statement. <br>
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Excerpt from our statement for IGF Hyderabad <br>
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<p>Network Neutrality - Ensuring Openness in All Layers of the
Internet<br>
Network neutrality has been an important architectural principle for
the Internet. This principle is under considerable challenge as
Internet becomes the mainstream communication platform for almost all
business and social activities. This main session will examine the
implication of this principle, and its possible evolutionary
interpretations, for Internet policy in different areas. Issues about
the openness of the Internet architecture are increasingly manifest in
all layers of the Internet today.</p>
<p>A Development Agenda for Internet Governance<br>
Development is a key focus of the Tunis Agenda and its mandate for the
IGF. Development also was listed as a cross-cutting theme of the Athens
and Rio conferences, but neither featured a main session that devoted
significant, focused attention to the linkages between Internet
governance mechanisms and development. However, at Rio a workshop was
organized by civil society actors in collaboration with the Swiss
government, Brazilian Internet Steering Committee and other partners
from all stakeholder groupings on, “Toward a Development Agenda for
Internet Governance.” The workshop considered the options for
establishing a holistic program of analysis and action that would help
mainstream development considerations into Internet governance decision
making processes.<br>
Attendees at this workshop expressed strong interest in further work on
the topic being pursued in the IGF. Hence, we believe the Development
Agenda concept should be taken up in a main session at Hyderabad, and
that this would be of keen interest to a great many participants there.
We also support the Swiss government’s proposal to consider
establishing a multi-stakeholder Working Group that could develop
recommendations to the IGF on a development agenda.</p>
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William Drake wrote:
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cite="mid:B9BBCB12-6181-4CF5-A492-45FE368B8BF5@graduateinstitute.ch"
type="cite">Hi Ginger,
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<div>Wouldn't it make sense to try to get some sense of consensus
first on topics before trying to wordsmith their descriptions? It
seems clear there's a good chunk of people who'd like to propose NN
again, but I'm not clear that the same is true with respect to IG4D.</div>
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<div>BTW I just took a quick peek at our Hyderabad statement on main
sessions <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.igcaucus.org/node/8">http://www.igcaucus.org/node/8</a>
which called for NN and DA, and I believe there were prior statements
endorsing a DA as well, but most of our stuff is not on the site and my
IGC folder going back to 03 is a mess. Sometime after the OC it'd be
great if we could consolidate on the site from the list archive,
Adam's old site, etc... would be useful.</div>
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<div>On another note, the manager at Les Brasseurs just wrote to say
they can't reserve the whole room for us as we're only @ 14 people and
they're always packed. Is a half a room and shouting at each other
through the noise ok, or do you want to consider another venue? Please
let me know ASAP.</div>
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<div>On Feb 3, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Ginger Paque wrote:</div>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><font face="Verdana">Thanks
Bill,<br>
Could you propose an alternate paragraph? I think we should try to get
a concrete phrasing for consensus with the whole IGC (hopefully)
reading the possibilities before we get to Geneva.<br>
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We have many experts here on the list who will not be in Geneva. It is
important for you to give us your input now, so that those of us who
are in Geneva can properly represent the IGC. Even if you do not
consider yourself an "expert", your experience and opinion count. Only
by hearing from you, can we know what the IGC position is.<br>
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Please post your ideas -- preferably with a proposed paragraph -- as
soon as possible.<br>
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Thanks! Best, Ginger<br>
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William Drake wrote:
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<pre wrap="">McTim, et al,
On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:40 AM, McTim wrote:
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<pre wrap="">1. We tried Rights and DA for IG already and failed.
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With regard to the latter, it's true that the caucus has in the past done statements calling for a main session on the notion of a development agenda, and that this hasn't been taken up. There are undoubtedly a number of reasons for this, including inter alia a) varying perceptions of the DAs that have been pursued in other international policy settings, e.g. WIPO; b) concerns or just lack of a clear view about what a DA might mean in the IG context; c) a + b + the idea arose outside MAG and lacked sufficient internal champions; and so on.
However, the situation has changed. At the May 09 OC Markus and Nitin mentioned several times that people have raised the connections between IG and development and said it might be ripe for a main session. And in Sharm there were various expressions of interest in the possibility. For example, in the WSIS Principles session I talked a bit about the DA workshop I'd organized, and Bill Graham in summarizing the discussion took favorable note of the conceptual progress made across this and the prior workshops I did at Hyderabad and Rio. In the Taking Stock session I suggested a main session on IG4D (to which Sha made a favorable remark in reply), others also raised development as a cross-cutting theme that deserves more visible attention (e.g. Heather, Parminder, Willie, Fouad...even the USG), and if memory serves Nitin raised it in the closing. So I think Parminder's right that the clouds have been seeded and there's reasonably wide interest in there being a main session
of some sort on IG4D, if not necessarily the DA framing. Insofar as the IGC has advocated this and members have pushed the concept forward in various ways, it would be a rather odd moment for us to back off and not express continued interest in making it happen. Walking away from an argument you're winning is generally an unusual strategy.
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<pre wrap="">2. Your formulation of a DA for IG found here:
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The concept of a DA is one that can be taken in a number of different directions. Parminder sees an integral link to the negotiation of a Framework Convention. APC has also advocated a DA (and I believe, a FC...foggy memory). My view is that posing a DA as necessarily involving some sort of meta-negotiations, particularly of a FC, is premature and a conversation stopper; what I've argued for in the first instance is a holistic framework of analysis and dialogue on the links between global IG processes and outcomes on the one hand and development on the other that would identify good practices and such that could be taken up in decision making forums. Those of us who are interested in this can and should debate the options further, the point here is that it doesn't make sense for you to fix on one way of thinking about the whole terrain and on that basis say no, bad idea.
What I would suggest is that the IGC adopt a text advocating a more broadly framed main session on IG4D—what if anything does the term mean, what are the linkages between global IG and development with respect to core resources and other issue areas, how might one take the conversation forward. In that context, the DA concept can be mentioned as a way of moving beyond identifying links toward doing something, with what that something may be posed as a point on which there are various perspectives. This would hopefully avoid arousing undue concerns that would prevent the core concept of IG4D getting a hearing, without precluding the possibility of exploring DA visions in that broader context.
Best,
Bill
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