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<font face="sans-serif">Hi Jeremy<br>
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I and my organization will support the statement. We need to use the
Wikileak affair to jolt ourselves out of complacency, and the vain
techno-fascinated hope that the myriad global internet issues will
resolve by themselves, which is what has landed us in the jungle law
mess (apologies to the feelings of Ian about nature, jungles and human
beings :)) where power is exercised in illegal means used in wikileaks
affair, and not, to the extent it is required to be used, in a sound
politically legitimate manner. <br>
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The statement is well written. Jeremy, can you post the text as it
stands on the list. Some of these online means may be more efficient,
and we shd use them by and by, but I understand that some people here
still, by habit, would like to see the texts of proposed statements in
this elist. And also an open discussion, suggestions for changes etc is
very useful (the process of public reasoning) as against private
changes to the texts in an online space. (We need to use a mix of two,
but that for later).<br>
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While I will like the full statement to be used, it is also possible
that David uses a smaller version. Something like (i am sure the
following could be improved a lot)<br>
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<blockquote><font face="sans-serif">"The recent WikiLeaks affairs have
starkly brought out how global Internet cannot, and should not, be
governed through illegitimate use of political and commercial power.
There are two clear problems with this approach of using backroom
governance tactics. One, they is always likely to be abused, as in our
view, they got hugely abused in the Wikileaks case. Second, in possible
cases where it may legitimately be required to employ some urgent
global governance responses to real problems or threats (or perhaps
even opportunities), which cannot completely be assumed away, backroom
levels of power based on raw political and commerical might, as
employed by some governments and their corporate cronies in the present
case, are not available to less powerful political players or
countries. This situation bespeaks a democratic deficit and a need for
globally democratic principles and institutional frameworks in the area
of Internet governance, which is the urgent challenge that the proposed
process of enhanced cooperation should address itself to. "</font><br>
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Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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<div>On 11/12/2010, at 5:13 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:</div>
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<div>Those who haven't commented on the Wikileaks statement yet but
plan to, please visit <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://igf-online.net/digress.it/">http://igf-online.net/digress.it/</a> latest
today or tomorrow. David Allen is copying some materials to take to
the Enhanced Cooperation consultation and will need this ready by
Monday morning.</div>
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Check back again now and you'll see revision marks for the changes I've
made in response to the comments so far. Of course, some of the
comments are mutually contradictory so I haven't been able to
incorporate all of them. Final comments can be made within the next 24
hours. Because we won't however have time for a formal consensus call
on this before David needs it, I feel that we cannot call it a
consensus statement, so I propose just putting my own name to it as IGC
co-coordinator.<br>
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