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<font face="sans-serif">While at it, it would not be appropriate if
the IGC</font> does not take note of the hottest public policy
issue right now - that of net neutrality. The US congress yesterday
blocked FCC's NN guidelines, which themselves were not good enough.
In these political contestations, right now in front of our eyes,
the Internet, and through it a world order, of the future is being
shaped. (Dont say it is just a US matter; how much I wish US
policies were just US matters.) So may be somethign like<br>
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'A possible framework for global Net Neutrality'<br>
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In addressing this issue we will be doing a specific positive
contribution to global Internet policy regimes. <br>
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Important to note that Council of Europe is working on the issue of
global net neutrality. <br>
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parminder<br>
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On Saturday 09 April 2011 06:09 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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<div>On 08/04/2011, at 11:50 PM, Marilia Maciel wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">I just believe that we should carefully
frame it, so that stakeholder representatives that do not
necessarely agree with the proposal feel invited and
encouraged to participate and put forth their arguments.
During the CSTD WG meeting, the technical community and US
opposed the proposal, but they did not say why. <br>
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<div>I feel that we are gravitating towards a consensus on the
more focused India/CSTD workshop proposal (in addition to the
Mapping one), but here is some more nuanced language for the
former, with changes underlined (anyone else, feel free to
make your own suggestions):</div>
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<b>Reflection on the Indian proposal towards an IGF 2.0</b>
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<div>As a participant in the CSTD's Working Group on Improvements
to the IGF, the Government of India recently provided a set of
"Proposed Improvements to IGF Outcomes, in Keeping with the UN
General Assembly Mandate". <u>Although only one stakeholder's
proposal, </u>the ten suggested improvements reflect proposals
that <u>some</u> other countries and other stakeholder groups
have also previously aired. <u>It is also one of the only
relatively comprehensive written proposals on IGF outcomes to
emerge from the Working Group, and therefore provides a
convenient starting point for further discussion.</u></div>
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It was suggested <u>in the proposal</u> that the MAG identify
key questions for the IGF to deliberate upon, that a Working
Group for each issue develop background material on it, to be
considered by the IGF through workshops, a roundtable
discussion, and possible inter-sessional meetings, and
that discussion at the plenary level would result in an IGF
report on each issue that would be transmitted to the CSTD and
other relevant bodies for their action and feedback.<br>
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Since it was not possible for the CSTD Working Group to fully
discuss these suggestions, this workshop is intended to provide
a space to do so more fully. <u>The workshop will provide an
opportunity for all stakeholders to consider the merits of the
proposals as well as their shortcomings, and</u> consider
whether and how to take <u>such</u> proposals forward.</div>
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