<div>Hi Jeremy,</div>
<div>Thanks a lot for this meaningful info.</div>
<div>Could this be resend to other networks?</div>
<div>Thanks a lot in advance.</div>
<div>Kind regards,</div>
<div>Roxana</div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium"><b>From: </b></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium">"Joe McNamee" <<a href="mailto:joe@mcnamee.eu" target="_blank">joe@mcnamee.eu</a>><br>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium">19 March 2010 5:09:17 PM GMT+08:00<br></span></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium"><b>To: </b></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium">"'Jeremy Malcolm'" <<a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org" target="_blank">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>><br>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium"><b>RE: [EDRi-members] Internet governance</b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The European Parliament is currently preparing a non-legislative report on Internet governance. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The Committee responsible (Industry) is going fairly slowly, but the MEP in charge has produced a fairly ill-informed document (in my humble opinion) which includes rather unwelcome, confused and contradictory thoughts, such as these:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-438.468+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN" target="_blank">http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-438.468+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN</a> </span></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">6. Bearing in mind that problems involving the Internet worldwide will continue to appear in forthcoming years, it is important that the EU institutions continue to work – as they are already doing on many fronts – on everything that may affect Europe’s values and fundamental rights’ heritage to ensure these are accepted in the global management of the Internet. Progress must therefore continue to be made on the following: </span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">–guaranteeing plural and non-discriminatory access to the Internet,</span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">–defending the European view on Internet neutrality,</span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">–aspects connected with security in the face of threats or attacks,</span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 43.1pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">–protection of citizens’ right to privacy and resolution of questions as to who has jurisdiction and which law is applicable in deciding where cases are heard (given that the Rome II agreement expressly excludes non-contractual conflicts connected with the right to privacy),</span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">–protection of intellectual property rights and guarantees regarding access to users’ culture,</span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">–guaranteeing free competition,</span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">–combating crime and, specifically, protection of minors’ rights.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-GB">The “Opinions” from other committees are generally bland and repeatedly call for “more transparency” from ICANN. My fear is that this chipping away at ICANN will lead us slowly in the direction of the ITU (lets not forget, without having nightmares, that the ITU and WIPO made a bid to fulfil the tasks now undertaken by ICANN!). To that end, I would like to draw MEPs’ attention to the fact (?) that there aren’t major problems with ICANN’s transparency, while the ITU would be a disaster for transparency, at least for the following 3 reasons.</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Companies pay to participate in ITU discussions:</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/membership/cost.html" target="_blank">http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/membership/cost.html</a></span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This payment is actively sold by the ITU as a way of buying influence:<font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy"> T</span></font>hey get “</span></font>access to various meetings at which decision-makers and potential partners are engaged in discussions” (<a href="http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/membership/sector.html" target="_blank">http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/membership/sector.html</a>)</p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Even more surprisingly, the documents adopted by the ITU are not widely available and must be purchased. See, for example:</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.Sup6-200909-I/en" target="_blank">http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.Sup6-200909-I/en</a></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-GB">As a result, I’m sure that there are members that know this issue far better than I do<font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">, </span></font>particularly with regard to whether or not there are significant transparency issues in ICANN. I therefore need your feedback on a. if EDRi should be taking a view on this, b. if we should be taking the view described above or c. if we should be taking another view?</span></font></p>
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