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I think Miguel's point are not included, right? <br>
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On 11/10/10 6:40 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">There is still
active discussion about this statement, so excuse me labelling
this as "final?", but we need to try to quickly wrap things up
in order to meet our deadline of Monday. You can still make
comments which can be incorporated into the version that goes to
a consensus call, but please try to make them minor and
specific, if you can.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">Please also try to
remember that we are trying to craft a statement that will be
acceptable by as many IGC members as possible, which - because
we have such a wide diversity of views - probably means that
nobody will find it completely to their satisfaction. This is
not to excuse the deficiencies in the statement, but just to ask
for your tolerance. :-) If there is no way that you can agree
to the statement even with minor amendments, you can make this
point, or just reject it at the poll.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">This time, I just
put the revision marks below, since I'm sure at least 90% of you
can see them. (Izumi and I have discussed putting together a
proper collaborative editing environment for drafting
statements, but this is still just a vague plan.)</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">The Civil Society
Internet Governance Caucus (CS-IGC) regards the process towards
enhanced cooperation as a vital step towards addressing the
"many cross-cutting international public policy issues that
require attention and are not adequately addressed by the
current mechanisms" (Tunis Agenda para 68).</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">Despite a<span
style="text-decoration: line-through;">n intergovernmental</span>
mandate from WSIS to address this governance deficit, much
remains to be done. It is imperative that this deficit continue
to be addressed, where appropriate through new institutional
developments that comply with the WSIS process criteria of being
multilateral, transparent, democratic and inclusive.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;"><span
style="text-decoration: underline;">It is now especially
critical that the global community give renewed attention to
these principles, at a time when we see danger of them being
forgotten - for example, in that a proposed
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that will affect Internet
users around the world (including the most marginalized), has
been shaped almost entirely by powerful corporate and state
actors from the global North.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">We make three
further points. First, enhanced cooperation should encompass
all Internet-related public policy issues; second, many of our
members believe the existing arrangements of relevant
organisations (including the Internet Governance Forum) do not
fully implement enhanced cooperation, and thirdly whatever
new arrangements may be put in place, civil society must play an
integral part in them, as one of the prerequisites for their
legitimacy.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">These points will
be explained in turn:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">1. Although much
of the discussion of enhanced cooperation at WSIS turned around
the narrow issue of internationalising the oversight of <span
style="text-decoration: line-through;">Internet naming and
numbering functions</span><span style="text-decoration:
underline;"> critical Internet resource administration</span>,
the Tunis Agenda expresses this principle far more broadly to
include <span style="color: rgb(51, 50, 51);">other substantive
Internet related public policy issues that require attention
and resolution at the global level</span>. It also reminds us
that the ultimate objective of our cooperation is to advance a
people-centred, inclusive, development-oriented and
non-discriminatory Information Society.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;"><span
style="text-decoration: underline;">This is not to say that
the broadening of oversight of critical Internet resource
administration is not an important issue - it is, and CS-IGC
members are among many who strongly consider the continuing
supervisory role of the US government to be inappropriate for
a truly global resource such as the Internet. But this is only
one of many important public policy issues on which enhanced
cooperation is needed.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">2. The IGF in its
present form is a very important part of the <span
style="text-decoration: underline;">broader</span> enhanced
cooperation process, in that its multi-stakeholder process can
provide input to shape decisions taken on Internet related
public policy issues in other fora. However the full
realisation of enhanced cooperation will require a
multi-stakeholder process to extend to all
other Internet governance organisations, whether new or
established.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;"><span
style="text-decoration: line-through;">If institutional
changes are to be made, t</span>There are various options for
enhancing multi-stakeholder cooperation within and amongst all
relevant organisations (which may be complementary). These
include:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;"><span
style="text-decoration: underline;">* making no institutional
changes but encouraging organisations to enhance their own
cooperation with other stakeholders and to report to the CSTD
on their progress;</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"><br>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">* establishing a
lightweight multi-stakeholder observatory process perhaps hosted
under the auspices of the IGF (pursuant to its mandate in
paragraph 72(i));</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"><br>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">* utilising a
virtual and voluntary global social community or ecosystem,
linking together all Internet governance organisations, in which
all stakeholders would participate; or</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">* <span
style="text-decoration: line-through;">establishing a new
umbrella governance institution for Internet policy
development</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">establishing
new governance arrangements designed to address any pressing
public policy matters that cannot be managed through existing
institutions</span>, with space for the full participation of
each stakeholder group in its respective role.<span
style="text-decoration: line-through;"> This might also be
situated within the IGF, but pursuant to a new
and supplementary mandate.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">3. Paragraph 71 of
the Tunis Agenda makes very clear that civil society is an
integral participant in the development of any process towards
enhanced cooperation. Therefore the IGC, in our capacity as
members of civil society, looks forward to
contributing constructively in transparent, accountable and
democratic multi-stakeholder consultations towards this end.</div>
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