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<font face="Verdana">Hi Baudouin,<br>
<br>
Thank you for your comment. It is too late to make a substantive change
in our statement and your concept is not clear to me. </font><font
face="Verdana">Is this a workshop or a main session suggestion? a call
for support? </font><font face="Verdana">Could you please develop it
more and present it for consideration on the discussion list, please? <br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Ginger<br>
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Baudouin SCHOMBE wrote:
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cite="mid:ecb172de1002080623j749ec89ake86df0c3e39ca65@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">it would be very indicated also to add <i
style="background-color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">"process of security and
protection of intellectual property on the Net</i><span
style="background-color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">"</span>. It
is a nebula which it is not very well developed in many emergent
countries, more particularly, in Africa. This is the case of the
cybercriminality, for example.<br>
<br clear="all">
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<div class="gmail_quote">2010/2/6 Parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a
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Ginger Paque wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"> <font face="Verdana">Hi everyone... I
just got in to Geneva, and see
that there have been no responses to this. Jeremy, if it is ok with
you, I think we should follow up on Parminder's proposal.<br>
<br>
Parminder: can you write up the actual wording for your proposal? I
think it is better if it comes from someone in the list. If you and
Jeremy agree, we can post:<br>
<br>
Parminder, since there have been no comments, please post your proposed
wording as soon as possible. </font></blockquote>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Ginger/ Jeremy/ All,<br>
<br>
See if the following works. (At the airport, leaving for Geneva. So
wont be able to comment any further throughout the day.)<br>
<br>
(proposed statement begins)<br>
<br>
IGC proposes three themes for main sessions for IGF Vilnius: <br>
<br>
Network Neutrality - Ensuring Openness in All Layers of the
Internet
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
A Development Agenda for Internet Governance<br>
<br>
</div>
Internet Rights and Principles<br>
<br>
It is significant to note that on the themes of Network Neutrality and
Development Agenda workshops have been organized in a few earlier IGFs,
including 3 hour workshops on both of these themes at IGF Sharm.Thus,
the two topics have considerable maturity within the IGF, while
constituting important issues requiring urgent attention of the global
IG community. The dynamic coalition on Internet rights and principles
is one of the most active DC and has done good work in the area of IRP.
Including IRP as a main theme, apart from the theme's intrinsic
importance, will be a good way to mainstreaming the work of DCs in the
IGF. <br>
<br>
A brief description of the three proposed themes is given below:<br>
<br>
Network Neutrality - Ensuring Openness in All Layers of the
Internet<br>
<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.<br>
<br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">A Development
Agenda
for Internet Governance</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Development
is a key focus of the Tunis Agenda and its mandate for the IGF. But
while development has been posed as a cross-cutting theme of
IGF meetings, they have not featured a broadly inclusive and probing
dialogue on what Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) might mean
in conceptual and operational terms. To address this gap, the IGC
previously has advocated a main session on A Development Agenda for
Internet Governance, and some its members have organized workshops or
produced position papers elaborating different visions of what such an
agenda could entail. In light of the related discussions during the
Sharm el Sheikh cycle, we renew our call for a main session on this
theme. The dialogue at Vilnius could, inter alia, identify the
linkages between Internet governance mechanisms and development, and
consider options for mainstreaming development considerations into IGF
discussions and Internet governance processes, as appropriate. We also
continue to 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.</font></div>
</div>
<big><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>
</font><small><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Internet
rights and principles</font></small></big><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>
</font>
<pre><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><big>A main session on 'Internet rights and principles' would explore a rights-based discourse in the area of Internet Governance. While it is relatively easy to articulate and claim “rights” it is much more difficult to agree on, implement and enforce them. We also recognize that rights claims can sometimes conflict or compete with each other. There can also be uncertainty about the proper application of a rights claim to a factual situation. The change in the technical methods of communication often undermines pre-existing understandings of how to apply legal categories. These complexities, however, only strengthen the case for using the IGF to explicitly discuss and debate these problems. </big></big><big><big>Internet governance has up to this time largely been founded in technical principles and, increasingly, on the Internet’s functionality as a giant global marketplace. With the Internet bec
oming increasingly central to many social and political institutions, an alternative foundation and conceptual framework for IG can be explored in looking at 'internet rights and principles'.</big></big></font></pre>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><small><br>
</small>The IGC affirms it support and assistance to develop main
sessions based on these themes, and look forward to a fruitful and
purposeful IGF Vilnius.<br>
<br>
(Statements ends)<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Parminder <br>
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<div class="h5"><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><font face="Verdana">We will then open for
comments and call
for consensus... unfortunately probably 24h and 24h due to time
constraints.<br>
<br>
Can you guys please try to get back to me asap?<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Ginger<br>
</font><br>
Parminder wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"> <font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I support Bill's draft
below... I propose that co-coordinators take this language for dev
agenda, and the Hyderabad statement's for NN/ Open Internet, and if the
decision is to include 'Internet rights and principles' in the list,
abstract a short para on it from the earlier statement which is
relatively not very sharp, and in size no longer than the paras on dev
agenda and NN. We shd put it out for a day or so of last comments and
then a final version for a consensus call over 48 hours. <br>
<br>
In the statement we should also mention that special 3 hour workshops
on the two themes of dev agenda and NN were organized last year, which
represents a certain degree of maturity of these themes within the IGF
context. And if 'internet rights and principles' is included as a main
theme, that the DC on IRP has been doing good work in this area for
considerable time now, an dis in fact the most active dynamic coalition
(the much celebrated concept in the IGF).<br>
<br>
Parminder <br>
</font><br>
William Drake wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Hi
<div><br>
</div>
<div>With just a few days to go before the OC, I'm not clear
if
we
are proceeding with a theme statement or have given up on the idea. In
the event that it's the former, I just reread what we agreed for
Hyderabad, and we really can't use it anymore, it's dated.</div>
<div><br>
<div>
<div>On Feb 3, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Parminder wrote:</div>
<br>
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<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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<div>How about something like this, which doesn't change the
substantive thrust of what was previously agreed:</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>A Development Agenda for Internet Governance</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Development is a key focus of the Tunis Agenda and its
mandate
for the IGF. But while development has been posed as a cross-cutting
theme of IGF meetings, they have not featured a broadly inclusive and
probing dialogue on what Internet Governance for Development (IG4D)
might mean in conceptual and operational terms. To address this gap,
the IGC previously has advocated a main session on A Development Agenda
for Internet Governance, and some its members have organized workshops
or produced position papers elaborating different visions of what such
an agenda could entail. In light of the related discussions during
the Sharm el Sheikh cycle, we renew our call for a main session on this
theme. The dialogue at Vilnius could, inter alia, identify the
linkages between Internet governance mechanisms and development, and
consider options for mainstreaming development considerations into IGF
discussions and Internet governance processes, as appropriate. We also
continue to 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.</div>
<div><br>
Bill</div>
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