<font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Sivasubramanian M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font><div><span name="amsg134217" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Copied from the APRICOT live transcript, proceedings of the session Internet Governance:</span></div>
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<span name="amsg134217" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">In terms of what I would like to </span><span name="amsg134218" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">say for the </span><span name="amsg134219" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">structure, I </span><span name="amsg134220" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">think the most important thing to </span><span name="amsg134221" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">remember -- when I was </span><span name="amsg134222" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">introduced, there </span><span name="amsg134223" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">was reference made to my role in </span><span name="amsg134224" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the expert group appointed by the </span><span name="amsg134225" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">secretary-general of the </span><span name="amsg134226" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ITU </span><span name="amsg134227" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">on international</span><span name="amsg134228" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">telecommunication regulations, </span><span name="amsg134229" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ITRs. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134229" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">I thought it </span><span name="amsg134230" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">was fascinating, </span><span name="amsg134231" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">because that is in fact the second </span><span name="amsg134232" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">attempt to create </span><span name="amsg134233" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">an</span><span name="amsg134234" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">intergovernmental organization -- </span><span name="amsg134235" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the very first </span><span name="amsg134236" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">one was the </span><span name="amsg134236" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">... </span><span name="amsg134237" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">postal union. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134237" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Those </span><span name="amsg134238" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">associated with </span><span name="amsg134239" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ITU, like myself, we </span><span name="amsg134240" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">don't talk about the </span><span name="amsg134241" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">IPU that much, but as a </span><span name="amsg134242" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">schoolar, I have to be </span><span name="amsg134243" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">honest and say the UPU </span><span name="amsg134244" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">was the very first </span><span name="amsg134245" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">one.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134246" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Then in 1865 the governments of </span><span name="amsg134247" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Europe got together to come </span><span name="amsg134248" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">up with rules about how </span><span name="amsg134249" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the telegraph would be </span><span name="amsg134250" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governed. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134250" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">The telegraph was </span><span name="amsg134251" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">active from 1848.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134252" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Among the things, among the at the </span><span name="amsg134253" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">nomna they had </span><span name="amsg134254" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to deal with were things like </span><span name="amsg134255" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the telegraph line coming from Germany to </span><span name="amsg134256" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">a place </span><span name="amsg134257" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">called </span><span name="amsg134258" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Achen and stopping, </span><span name="amsg134259" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and then the physical </span><span name="amsg134260" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">messages being </span><span name="amsg134261" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">carried across the border in </span><span name="amsg134262" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">France and being put </span><span name="amsg134263" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">into the telegraph line again on </span><span name="amsg134264" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">[ </span><span name="amsg134264" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">...] on the other side of the </span><span name="amsg134265" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">border, because this was seen </span><span name="amsg134266" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">as something the governments </span><span name="amsg134267" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">wanted to control. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134267" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Of course, </span><span name="amsg134268" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">we had the at </span><span name="amsg134269" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the nomna of a </span><span name="amsg134270" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">man called Julius </span><span name="amsg134271" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Ryeter, whose name </span><span name="amsg134272" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">lives on in </span><span name="amsg134273" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the company </span><span name="amsg134274" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Reuters, who decided to use </span><span name="amsg134275" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the pigeons </span><span name="amsg134276" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to accelerate the process</span><span name="amsg134277" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">by which this information came from the telegraph </span><span name="amsg134278" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and was walked across the </span><span name="amsg134279" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">border and </span><span name="amsg134280" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">then re-inputd </span><span name="amsg134281" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">into the telegraph. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134281" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">He carried </span><span name="amsg134282" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the financial and economic information </span><span name="amsg134283" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">using pigeons from the German</span><span name="amsg134284" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">side, who </span><span name="amsg134285" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">were not amenable to the customs </span><span name="amsg134286" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">procedures and so </span><span name="amsg134287" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">on, </span><span name="amsg134288" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and as a result </span><span name="amsg134289" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the ah kayak procedure </span><span name="amsg134290" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">that was in </span><span name="amsg134291" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">place did not last for very </span><span name="amsg134292" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">long, Mr Mr </span><span name="amsg134293" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Reuter managed </span><span name="amsg134294" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to leverage his activities into </span><span name="amsg134295" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">longstanding </span><span name="amsg134296" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and powerful news </span><span name="amsg134297" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">organization that carries </span><span name="amsg134298" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">his name until today.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134299" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">So you can see </span><span name="amsg134300" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">that from the very </span><span name="amsg134301" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">beginning of electronic </span><span name="amsg134302" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">communication, the question of </span><span name="amsg134303" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governmental </span><span name="amsg134304" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">coordination, governmental control </span><span name="amsg134305" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">over content, the private </span><span name="amsg134306" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">sector's involvement in it </span><span name="amsg134307" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">in various ways, </span><span name="amsg134308" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">including in getting around the</span><span name="amsg134309" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">government </span><span name="amsg134310" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">controls, was a feature of </span><span name="amsg134311" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the </span><span name="amsg134312" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">way electronic communications were</span><span name="amsg134313" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governed.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134314" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">I find it interesting to think that </span><span name="amsg134315" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">these issues that </span><span name="amsg134316" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">we think are being addressed for the</span><span name="amsg134317" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">very first time were in fact </span><span name="amsg134318" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">addressed -- they are </span><span name="amsg134319" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">not really new, they have just </span><span name="amsg134320" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">taken different forms. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134320" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">One of </span><span name="amsg134321" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the things about the ITU </span><span name="amsg134322" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">that was </span><span name="amsg134323" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">created at that point and which continues</span><span name="amsg134324" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">until today is the </span><span name="amsg134325" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">involvement of </span><span name="amsg134326" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">technical experts </span><span name="amsg134327" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">in the </span><span name="amsg134328" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">day-to-day activities of decision-making and </span><span name="amsg134329" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">coordination. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134329" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">For example, </span><span name="amsg134330" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">while the </span><span name="amsg134331" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">deliberation that some of us, for </span><span name="amsg134332" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">example, when I was working in </span><span name="amsg134333" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">government, I used to go to </span><span name="amsg134334" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the </span><span name="amsg134335" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">meny potentialry and spend five or </span><span name="amsg134336" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">[ </span><span name="amsg134336" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">...] five or six </span><span name="amsg134337" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">days, go through interminable </span><span name="amsg134338" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">long discussions about </span><span name="amsg134339" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">how to elect the next</span><span name="amsg134340" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">office bearers and give direction to </span><span name="amsg134341" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the organization per se.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134342" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">But in fact the really important </span><span name="amsg134343" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">work in the ITU is done in </span><span name="amsg134344" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the various Working Groups. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134344" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Under the </span><span name="amsg134345" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ITU, particularly </span><span name="amsg134346" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">under the </span><span name="amsg134347" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">standard spot and under the </span><span name="amsg134348" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">radio, ITUR.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134349" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">In these cases there </span><span name="amsg134350" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">is involvement </span><span name="amsg134351" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">far beyond that </span><span name="amsg134352" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">of </span><span name="amsg134352" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">..., it is the technical </span><span name="amsg134353" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">people, the manufacturing companies, the </span><span name="amsg134354" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">operating </span><span name="amsg134355" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">companies, various </span><span name="amsg134356" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">entities that participate in</span><span name="amsg134357" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the actual </span><span name="amsg134358" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">decision-making.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134359" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">One could say that the ITU is </span><span name="amsg134360" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the original multistakeholder </span><span name="amsg134361" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">approach.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134362" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">And we have to keep that in </span><span name="amsg134363" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">mind, because governments </span><span name="amsg134364" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">by themselves will have</span><span name="amsg134365" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">difficulty </span><span name="amsg134366" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">in understanding the </span><span name="amsg134367" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">complexities and </span><span name="amsg134368" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">offsetting -- ^correction </span><span name="amsg134369" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and of setting the </span><span name="amsg134370" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">framework for this extraordinarily </span><span name="amsg134371" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">dynamic sector of </span><span name="amsg134372" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the economy that now we call the Internet </span><span name="amsg134373" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">economy.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134374" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">So with that context, I think it is important </span><span name="amsg134375" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">for us to understand that we are </span><span name="amsg134376" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">at an important decision point.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134377" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">We have had </span><span name="amsg134378" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">five years of the </span><span name="amsg134379" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">IGF, the Internet Governance </span><span name="amsg134380" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Forum, and we are </span><span name="amsg134381" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">now</span><span name="amsg134382" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">looking to see IGF </span><span name="amsg134383" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">2, the mandate has been </span><span name="amsg134384" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">renewed, but how can it </span><span name="amsg134385" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">be </span><span name="amsg134386" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">strengthened, how can it be </span><span name="amsg134387" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">enhanced? There are, of course, </span><span name="amsg134388" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">different viewpoints on this matter,</span><span name="amsg134389" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">about making it an </span><span name="amsg134390" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">outcome-oriented </span><span name="amsg134391" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">organization, which Mr </span><span name="amsg134392" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Ravi Shanker will talk</span><span name="amsg134393" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">about, as </span><span name="amsg134394" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">against keeping the value of </span><span name="amsg134395" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the organization as a platform </span><span name="amsg134396" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">that people can freely </span><span name="amsg134397" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">express their </span><span name="amsg134398" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ideas. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134398" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Because one of the </span><span name="amsg134399" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">difficulties, of course, is that </span><span name="amsg134400" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the minute you go </span><span name="amsg134401" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">beyond</span><span name="amsg134402" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governance, one vote </span><span name="amsg134403" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">per country kind of </span><span name="amsg134404" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">model, it becomes very difficult to get</span><span name="amsg134405" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">decision-making.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134406" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">We have seen that in the ITU </span><span name="amsg134407" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">world, in the Internet world, we </span><span name="amsg134408" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">have </span><span name="amsg134409" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">actually brought</span><span name="amsg134410" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">new ways of decision-making among </span><span name="amsg134411" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">experts that are </span><span name="amsg134412" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">actually quite </span><span name="amsg134413" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">exemplary, even in terms </span><span name="amsg134414" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">of governments should be wanting to learn about </span><span name="amsg134415" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">what </span><span name="amsg134416" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">we </span><span name="amsg134417" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">call </span><span name="amsg134417" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">... working code -- </span><span name="amsg134418" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">getting the job done, rather </span><span name="amsg134419" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">than interminably </span><span name="amsg134420" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">talking about things, </span><span name="amsg134421" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and by the time the definition is </span><span name="amsg134422" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">arrived at the matter </span><span name="amsg134423" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">has been already resolved on </span><span name="amsg134424" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the ground.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134425" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Those are the kinds of issues we </span><span name="amsg134426" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">will be talking about. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134426" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">My task here is </span><span name="amsg134427" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">basically to set the frame, which I </span><span name="amsg134428" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">will be joined in by </span><span name="amsg134429" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the panelists through </span><span name="amsg134430" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">their opening </span><span name="amsg134431" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">statements, and then to raise a few </span><span name="amsg134432" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">questions, to see </span><span name="amsg134433" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">whether we can get </span><span name="amsg134434" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">some </span><span name="amsg134435" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">interactivity among this </span><span name="amsg134436" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">multistakeholder group and with you, </span><span name="amsg134437" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and hopefully advance our understanding of </span><span name="amsg134438" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the issues, the challenges that face us </span><span name="amsg134439" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">today. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134439" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">With that, let </span><span name="amsg134440" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">me invite Mr </span><span name="amsg134441" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Hasanul Haq </span><span name="amsg134442" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Inu, member of Parliament and </span><span name="amsg134443" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">chairman of the standing </span><span name="amsg134444" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">committee on post </span><span name="amsg134445" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and telecommunications from </span><span name="amsg134446" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Bangladesh.</span></blockquote>
<br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium"><span name="amsg134447" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">APPLAUSE>>Hasanul Haq Inu: Thank </span><span name="amsg134448" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">you very </span><span name="amsg134449" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">much, Professor.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
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<span name="amsg134450" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">[ </span><span name="amsg134450" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">...] My </span><span name="amsg134451" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">co-panelists, good morning and good afternoon.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134452" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">I am </span><span name="amsg134453" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">from Bangladesh and I </span><span name="amsg134454" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">am a politician, </span><span name="amsg134455" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">one of </span><span name="amsg134456" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the persons who </span><span name="amsg134457" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">is in </span><span name="amsg134458" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">a position --</span><span name="amsg134459" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">people become </span><span name="amsg134460" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">scared, because </span><span name="amsg134461" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">when </span><span name="amsg134461" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">... </span><span name="amsg134462" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">for this to close it.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134463" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">So do not get </span><span name="amsg134464" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">afraid, because the </span><span name="amsg134465" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">moderator, is </span><span name="amsg134466" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">in due time I will try to </span><span name="amsg134467" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">close my mouth </span><span name="amsg134468" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and listen to </span><span name="amsg134469" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">you, because </span><span name="amsg134470" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">in politics, those </span><span name="amsg134471" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">politicians </span><span name="amsg134472" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">are successful when they are </span><span name="amsg134473" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">good at listening, and </span><span name="amsg134474" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">those who do not hear, they are bad </span><span name="amsg134475" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">politicians.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134476" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">The world is </span><span name="amsg134477" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governed by bad and good politicians.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134478" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">I am one of </span><span name="amsg134479" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">them, so I </span><span name="amsg134480" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">have bad things and good things </span><span name="amsg134481" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">also.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134482" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">In </span><span name="amsg134483" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">December 2012 </span><span name="amsg134484" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">in </span><span name="amsg134485" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">tube, the ITU Conference </span><span name="amsg134486" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">is </span><span name="amsg134487" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">going to be held (Dubai </span><span name="amsg134488" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">^). </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134488" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">At that </span><span name="amsg134489" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Conference they will discuss the </span><span name="amsg134490" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governance issue of </span><span name="amsg134491" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the Internet, but on </span><span name="amsg134492" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the</span><span name="amsg134493" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governance issues we should be </span><span name="amsg134494" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">very clear, </span><span name="amsg134495" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the governance </span><span name="amsg134496" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">is ITU and </span><span name="amsg134497" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the Internet Governance is very different, </span><span name="amsg134498" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">but </span><span name="amsg134499" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the governance of the Internet </span><span name="amsg134500" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">is a broad based issue </span><span name="amsg134501" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">which needs to be addressed </span><span name="amsg134502" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">properly.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134503" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">In that Conference, I think the government </span><span name="amsg134504" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and the multistakeholders </span><span name="amsg134505" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">will debate on</span><span name="amsg134506" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the </span><span name="amsg134507" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">jurisdiction of the international Internet. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134507" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Many governments </span><span name="amsg134508" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">are also </span><span name="amsg134509" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">considering the continuation </span><span name="amsg134510" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">of the </span><span name="amsg134511" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">existing policy on the Internet.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134512" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">This </span><span name="amsg134513" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">could signal a shift in the </span><span name="amsg134514" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">regulatory paradigm </span><span name="amsg134515" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">on </span><span name="amsg134516" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">both the international </span><span name="amsg134517" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and national levels.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134518" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Well </span><span name="amsg134519" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">in 1998 the treaty was adopted </span><span name="amsg134520" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">by ITU which will be reviewed in </span><span name="amsg134521" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">that Conference, and </span><span name="amsg134522" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">some member states may put forward the </span><span name="amsg134523" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">idea of major changes with </span><span name="amsg134524" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">respect to the </span><span name="amsg134525" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Internet.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134526" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">So we are on </span><span name="amsg134527" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the brink of a very interesting </span><span name="amsg134528" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">debate, and we need to </span><span name="amsg134529" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">take very</span><span name="amsg134530" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">important decisions, and there are </span><span name="amsg134531" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">many proposals floating across </span><span name="amsg134532" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the world.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134533" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">One proposal </span><span name="amsg134534" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">is to develop an </span><span name="amsg134535" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">oversighting body on </span><span name="amsg134536" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the nongovernmental</span><span name="amsg134537" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">multistakeholder </span><span name="amsg134538" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">organizations, like i </span><span name="amsg134539" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">[ </span><span name="amsg134539" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">...] </span><span name="amsg134540" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ICANN,<b> there are other proposals </b></span><b><span name="amsg134541" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and to bring under </span><span name="amsg134542" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ITU the core </span><span name="amsg134543" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">functions of many </span><span name="amsg134544" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">organizations and nongovernmental</span><span name="amsg134545" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">organizations like </span><span name="amsg134546" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">IEEE, </span><span name="amsg134547" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ISOC, ICANN, </span><span name="amsg134548" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">WOCC, particularly with </span><span name="amsg134549" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">respect to the design of </span><span name="amsg134550" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">systems infrastructure, the </span><span name="amsg134551" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">development of protocols and the </span><span name="amsg134552" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">management of domain </span><span name="amsg134553" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">numbering </span><span name="amsg134554" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">associations. </span></b></blockquote>
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<br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium"><span name="amsg134554" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Whether in </span><span name="amsg134555" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">that Conference or across the </span><span name="amsg134556" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">worldings we are going </span><span name="amsg134557" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to determine the appropriate role of the </span><span name="amsg134558" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governments in </span><span name="amsg134559" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the 21st century. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134559" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">These are the things, </span><span name="amsg134560" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the proposals </span><span name="amsg134561" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">from India, </span><span name="amsg134562" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and South Africa, they are floating a</span><span name="amsg134563" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">proposal, and </span><span name="amsg134564" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Russia, </span><span name="amsg134565" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Arabic and other organizations are </span><span name="amsg134566" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">trying to float other proposals, </span><span name="amsg134567" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and the Indian, </span><span name="amsg134568" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Brazil and South </span><span name="amsg134569" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">African proposal is the committee to </span><span name="amsg134570" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">-- to develop a </span><span name="amsg134571" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">committee for Internet related </span><span name="amsg134572" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">policies, </span><span name="amsg134573" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">CIRP, so </span><span name="amsg134574" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">these are the proposals.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134575" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">[ </span><span name="amsg134575" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">...] </span><span name="amsg134575" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">But the major question is </span><span name="amsg134576" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">how this </span><span name="amsg134577" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">world body, </span><span name="amsg134578" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">[ </span><span name="amsg134578" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">...] </span><span name="amsg134579" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">can establish authority over the technical and </span><span name="amsg134580" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">personal functions of the Internet.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134581" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">That is the question.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium"><span name="amsg134582" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">As you know, access to the Internet </span><span name="amsg134583" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and information </span><span name="amsg134584" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">is </span><span name="amsg134585" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">a </span><span name="amsg134585" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">... of the people, </span><span name="amsg134586" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">unlike most communications media, </span><span name="amsg134587" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Internet technology is based on </span><span name="amsg134588" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">global, open </span><span name="amsg134589" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and nonproprietary standard and thus </span><span name="amsg134590" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">do challenge the </span><span name="amsg134591" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">existing regulatory institutions based </span><span name="amsg134592" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">on national boundaries.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134593" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">First is a </span><span name="amsg134594" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">very broad term, used </span><span name="amsg134595" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">in many </span><span name="amsg134596" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">different context </span><span name="amsg134597" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">-- as plying to </span><span name="amsg134598" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">activity as diverse as operation </span><span name="amsg134599" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">of technical </span><span name="amsg134600" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">standard, operation of </span><span name="amsg134601" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">technical infrastructure,</span><span name="amsg134602" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">development, evolution, </span><span name="amsg134603" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">[ </span><span name="amsg134603" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">...] </span><span name="amsg134604" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">its activities are not </span><span name="amsg134605" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">restricted to the </span><span name="amsg134606" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">activities of the government or a world body.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134607" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Many different types of stakeholders </span><span name="amsg134608" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">have a role in defining and </span><span name="amsg134609" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">carrying </span><span name="amsg134610" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">out Internet Governance activities.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134611" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">In public </span><span name="amsg134612" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">policy areas, </span><span name="amsg134613" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governmental </span><span name="amsg134614" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">intervention has taken place in order </span><span name="amsg134615" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to deal </span><span name="amsg134616" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">with specific issues that </span><span name="amsg134617" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">might hinder access or </span><span name="amsg134618" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">use of </span><span name="amsg134619" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Internet, for </span><span name="amsg134620" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">example domestic</span><span name="amsg134621" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">restrictions are removed by the government to pave the </span><span name="amsg134622" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">way for the </span><span name="amsg134623" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">entry of </span><span name="amsg134624" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">IP companies, including </span><span name="amsg134625" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">allowing IP </span><span name="amsg134626" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">telephoneo, developing </span><span name="amsg134626" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">... </span><span name="amsg134627" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to connect with</span><span name="amsg134628" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">satellites, setting up </span><span name="amsg134629" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">nationwide local call </span><span name="amsg134630" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">tariffs or flat </span><span name="amsg134631" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">fees for </span><span name="amsg134632" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">local Internet dial-up, providing easy </span><span name="amsg134633" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">market entry and </span><span name="amsg134634" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">interconnections of </span><span name="amsg134635" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ISPs.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134636" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Also access for </span><span name="amsg134637" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">international bandwidth. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134637" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">These </span><span name="amsg134638" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">initial steps </span><span name="amsg134639" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">have </span><span name="amsg134640" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">contributed </span><span name="amsg134641" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to offering </span><span name="amsg134642" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">public Internet services.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134643" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Moreover, experience has </span><span name="amsg134644" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">shown that subsidising basic </span><span name="amsg134645" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">intrash content </span><span name="amsg134646" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and skills in terms of access </span><span name="amsg134647" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and use </span><span name="amsg134648" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">can benefit the </span><span name="amsg134649" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">sectors </span><span name="amsg134650" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">development. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134650" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Moreover, the </span><span name="amsg134651" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governments do </span><span name="amsg134652" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">have a strong contribution </span><span name="amsg134653" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to several </span><span name="amsg134654" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">critical public policy ideas, limited </span><span name="amsg134655" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to Internet, such as security, </span><span name="amsg134656" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">privacy, telecommunications </span><span name="amsg134657" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">policy,</span><span name="amsg134658" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">universal </span><span name="amsg134659" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">access, protection, </span><span name="amsg134660" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">e-commerce and </span><span name="amsg134661" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">other economic issues.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134662" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Besides these </span><span name="amsg134663" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governmental roles, </span><span name="amsg134664" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the cyberspace </span><span name="amsg134665" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and many international agencies and </span><span name="amsg134666" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">other intergovernmental organizations are playing a role in Internet Governance, for example ITU, Unesco, other party </span><span name="amsg134667" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">organizations, </span><span name="amsg134668" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">organizations for </span><span name="amsg134669" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">economic cooperation </span><span name="amsg134670" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and development, OECD, </span><span name="amsg134671" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and council of the </span><span name="amsg134672" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Asia Pacific </span><span name="amsg134673" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">forum.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134674" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Apart from </span><span name="amsg134675" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">these, the </span><span name="amsg134676" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governments </span><span name="amsg134677" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">-- the critical Internet </span><span name="amsg134678" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">resource, </span><span name="amsg134679" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">CIR, cannot function at </span><span name="amsg134680" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">all, </span><span name="amsg134681" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">is complicated. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134681" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">As you know, the </span><span name="amsg134682" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">current structure of the </span><span name="amsg134683" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ICANN </span><span name="amsg134684" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">is </span><span name="amsg134684" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">... </span><span name="amsg134685" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">because of </span><span name="amsg134686" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">this relationship with the </span><span name="amsg134687" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">US </span><span name="amsg134688" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Government.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134689" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">The </span><span name="amsg134690" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Internet's technologycal development as well as administration </span><span name="amsg134691" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">grew overall </span><span name="amsg134692" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">with</span><span name="amsg134693" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">little government </span><span name="amsg134694" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">regulatory intervention.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134695" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">It developed from </span><span name="amsg134696" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the bottom </span><span name="amsg134697" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">up, plainly by technical </span><span name="amsg134698" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">developers, providers and users.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134699" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">The model contrasts with </span><span name="amsg134700" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">that of telecommunication and broadcasting industries, while in many cases top-down national government regulation historically guided the structure, the design of the media. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134700" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">The technological </span><span name="amsg134701" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">development and </span><span name="amsg134702" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">administration of the Internet </span><span name="amsg134703" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">is involved in ensuring that </span><span name="amsg134704" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the network </span><span name="amsg134705" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">is interoperable, </span><span name="amsg134706" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">functional, </span><span name="amsg134707" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">stable, secure, </span><span name="amsg134708" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">efficient, as well as </span><span name="amsg134709" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">capable in the long run.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134710" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">No </span><span name="amsg134711" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">single person, organization, </span><span name="amsg134712" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">or country manages the Internet.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134713" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Instead, the </span><span name="amsg134714" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Internet's </span><span name="amsg134715" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">tellingcal management is handled </span><span name="amsg134716" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">by many entities </span><span name="amsg134717" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">which work with </span><span name="amsg134718" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">a coordinated </span><span name="amsg134719" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and open framework, such as </span><span name="amsg134720" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">IEGF, </span><span name="amsg134721" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">IEAP, </span><span name="amsg134722" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governmental</span><span name="amsg134723" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">consortium, consensus </span><span name="amsg134724" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">driven </span><span name="amsg134725" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">bottom-up in the field.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134726" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Most of the protocols at the </span><span name="amsg134727" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">core of the Internet are protocols </span><span name="amsg134728" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">based on open standard that are efficient, </span><span name="amsg134729" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">trusted and open </span><span name="amsg134730" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to </span><span name="amsg134731" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">global implementation with little or no </span><span name="amsg134732" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">licensing restrictions.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134733" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">They are available to </span><span name="amsg134734" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">anyone, everyone at </span><span name="amsg134735" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">no </span><span name="amsg134736" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">cost.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134737" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">So here we </span><span name="amsg134738" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">are </span><span name="amsg134739" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">now with the </span><span name="amsg134740" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governmental </span><span name="amsg134741" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">bodies, intergovernmental organization,</span><span name="amsg134742" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">national </span><span name="amsg134743" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">institutions, so we need to </span><span name="amsg134744" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">develop a </span><span name="amsg134745" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">consensus on dos and don'ts </span><span name="amsg134746" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and we need to take </span><span name="amsg134747" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">care of the don'ts </span><span name="amsg134748" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to develop the relations, </span><span name="amsg134749" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the technical </span><span name="amsg134750" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">protocols as well as programs. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134750" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Here comes </span><span name="amsg134751" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the role of the governmental body.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134752" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">The open nature of </span><span name="amsg134753" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the Internet needs to be kept </span><span name="amsg134754" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and not to be Dibbs turn.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134755" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">It will not </span><span name="amsg134756" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">be wise, from my </span><span name="amsg134757" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">understanding, that it will </span><span name="amsg134758" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">not be wise </span><span name="amsg134759" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to </span><span name="amsg134760" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">push </span><span name="amsg134761" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">IEGT,</span><span name="amsg134762" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">IEAP, WOCC or </span><span name="amsg134763" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ICANN or </span><span name="amsg134764" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">APNIC under ITU or </span><span name="amsg134765" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">any other </span><span name="amsg134766" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">body, but intergovernmental and </span><span name="amsg134767" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governmental bodies can be developed </span><span name="amsg134768" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and can function in </span><span name="amsg134769" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">a complimentary way and </span><span name="amsg134770" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">can have </span><span name="amsg134771" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">a direct </span><span name="amsg134772" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">relation.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134773" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">So a new </span><span name="amsg134774" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">multilateral treaty or agreement </span><span name="amsg134775" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">on certain principles can be developed to keep </span><span name="amsg134776" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">going the functioning of the Internet </span><span name="amsg134777" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and </span><span name="amsg134778" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">promote solidarity and cooperation between </span><span name="amsg134779" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">states and underline the </span><span name="amsg134780" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">public value of </span><span name="amsg134781" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the Internet beyond commercial</span><span name="amsg134782" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">interests.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134783" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">IGF needs to focus on </span><span name="amsg134784" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">finding a new </span><span name="amsg134785" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">way </span><span name="amsg134786" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">of </span><span name="amsg134787" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">intergovernance, softer governance, </span><span name="amsg134788" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to define the </span><span name="amsg134789" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">parameters for the rights of </span><span name="amsg134790" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the Internet. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134790" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Having said that, I </span><span name="amsg134791" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">will come back after </span><span name="amsg134792" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">listening to </span><span name="amsg134793" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">you, </span><span name="amsg134794" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">with the national ideas and</span><span name="amsg134795" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">regional ideas need to be activated and </span><span name="amsg134796" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">need to </span><span name="amsg134797" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">be very </span><span name="amsg134798" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">vibrant, to </span><span name="amsg134799" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">keep going </span><span name="amsg134800" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the Internet </span><span name="amsg134801" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">paradigm. </span></blockquote>
<br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium"><span name="amsg134801" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Thank you very much </span><span name="amsg134802" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">APPLAUSE>>Rohan Samarajiva: Thank you very much, Mr</span><span name="amsg134803" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">INu for a </span><span name="amsg134804" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">comprehensive overview.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>India's views on Internet Governance:</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span name="amsg134805" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">I would like to </span><span name="amsg134806" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">invite Mr </span><span name="amsg134807" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">N </span><span name="amsg134808" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Ravi Shanker </span><span name="amsg134809" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to make his opening </span><span name="amsg134810" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">statement.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium"><span name="amsg134811" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">>>N Ravishanker: </span><span name="amsg134812" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Thank </span><span name="amsg134813" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">you. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
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<span name="amsg134813" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">At the outset I </span><span name="amsg134814" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">would like to </span><span name="amsg134815" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">say </span><span name="amsg134816" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">that the distinguished </span><span name="amsg134817" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">panelists have set the </span><span name="amsg134818" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">tone for the session. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134818" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">I will only add what I can call flavour from the government side, some experience of having participated in several ideas and ICANN meetings </span><span name="amsg134819" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">When </span><span name="amsg134820" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">we </span><span name="amsg134821" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">think of </span><span name="amsg134822" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Internet and </span><span name="amsg134823" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governance </span><span name="amsg134824" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">as descrint </span><span name="amsg134825" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">words, </span><span name="amsg134826" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">we look at </span><span name="amsg134827" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Internet and </span><span name="amsg134828" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">trade, the </span><span name="amsg134829" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Internet represents free trade, free </span><span name="amsg134830" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">thought and free </span><span name="amsg134831" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">world, a </span><span name="amsg134831" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">... </span><span name="amsg134832" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">thought process.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134833" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">When you look at </span><span name="amsg134834" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">government as a separate </span><span name="amsg134835" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">word, you think </span><span name="amsg134836" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">it </span><span name="amsg134837" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">controls, and you begin to </span><span name="amsg134838" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">use another </span><span name="amsg134839" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">word called draconian, so you have </span><span name="amsg134840" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">draconian and somewhere you </span><span name="amsg134841" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">have to try to put the </span><span name="amsg134842" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">words for Internet Governance and try </span><span name="amsg134843" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to say what </span><span name="amsg134844" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">does Internet Governance mean.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134845" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">I think the whole </span><span name="amsg134846" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">concept of Internet </span><span name="amsg134847" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Governance dwelt on </span><span name="amsg134848" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the sole issue -- yes, there</span><span name="amsg134849" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">is a community, there is a </span><span name="amsg134850" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">community who needs a direction </span><span name="amsg134851" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and in order to </span><span name="amsg134852" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">have a direction we need </span><span name="amsg134853" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to have principles, </span><span name="amsg134854" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">protocols -- </span><span name="amsg134855" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">principles and </span><span name="amsg134856" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">protocols are all what governance is </span><span name="amsg134857" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">about. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134857" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Whether we like </span><span name="amsg134858" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the word governance or not, it </span><span name="amsg134859" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">is what is </span><span name="amsg134860" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">important.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134861" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Ultimately, TCP and </span><span name="amsg134862" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ICP are all protocols.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134863" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">So when </span><span name="amsg134864" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">we work in the Internet </span><span name="amsg134865" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">sphere, we have so many technical bodies </span><span name="amsg134866" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and we evolve standard </span><span name="amsg134867" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and we come to </span><span name="amsg134868" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">a common understanding, </span><span name="amsg134869" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">yes, we will adhere to these </span><span name="amsg134870" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">standards.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134871" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">As a large </span><span name="amsg134872" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">user community </span><span name="amsg134873" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">grows, and there are issues that </span><span name="amsg134874" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">perm </span><span name="amsg134875" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">yacht beyond technical but go </span><span name="amsg134876" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">into the </span><span name="amsg134877" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">associate logical realm, that is where </span><span name="amsg134878" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governments come into play, </span><span name="amsg134879" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">then you begin to say, </span><span name="amsg134880" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">well, all aspects of the Internet are </span><span name="amsg134881" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">not technical but there are many </span><span name="amsg134882" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">aspects of the </span><span name="amsg134883" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Internet which are </span><span name="amsg134884" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">socio-economic and associate logic, </span><span name="amsg134885" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and governments begin to regulate on </span><span name="amsg134886" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">these things.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134887" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Often, it is the clash between two </span><span name="amsg134888" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">sets of ideas or </span><span name="amsg134889" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ideologies, technical and</span><span name="amsg134890" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">governance related.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134891" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">If you look at the broader picture, </span><span name="amsg134892" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">as the </span><span name="amsg134893" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">honourable member </span><span name="amsg134894" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">for parliament of ban </span><span name="amsg134895" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">la desh has mentioned, we move to </span><span name="amsg134896" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">a situation where </span><span name="amsg134897" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">legislation is brought about</span><span name="amsg134898" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">through a process </span><span name="amsg134899" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">of dialogue and </span><span name="amsg134900" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">discussion. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134900" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">We into </span><span name="amsg134901" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to </span><span name="amsg134902" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">look at Internet Governance from the </span><span name="amsg134903" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">larger area, </span><span name="amsg134904" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">that it is to foster goodwill </span><span name="amsg134905" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and ensure there is </span><span name="amsg134906" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">a degree of </span><span name="amsg134907" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">coherence and consistency when we deal with </span><span name="amsg134908" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">these issue. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134908" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Let's look at the </span><span name="amsg134909" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">bodies that </span><span name="amsg134910" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">handle Internet Governance. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134910" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">We have </span><span name="amsg134911" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ICANN, we </span><span name="amsg134912" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">have APNIC and </span><span name="amsg134913" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the </span><span name="amsg134914" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">various </span><span name="amsg134914" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">... and the IGF </span><span name="amsg134915" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ICANN typically deals with </span><span name="amsg134916" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">names and numbers and </span><span name="amsg134917" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the numbers have </span><span name="amsg134918" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">been further delegated down </span><span name="amsg134919" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to the </span><span name="amsg134920" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">IR, of which APNIC is one </span><span name="amsg134921" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">such </span><span name="amsg134922" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">entity in Asia.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134923" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Each one of the bodies, whether it </span><span name="amsg134924" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">is ICANN </span><span name="amsg134925" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">or APNIC and other </span><span name="amsg134926" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">RIRs, work under a set </span><span name="amsg134927" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">of protocols and </span><span name="amsg134928" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">processes to </span><span name="amsg134929" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">which they try </span><span name="amsg134930" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to govern the names </span><span name="amsg134931" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and numbers. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134931" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">We </span><span name="amsg134932" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">who have been </span><span name="amsg134933" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">using the </span><span name="amsg134934" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">CGDEs and </span><span name="amsg134935" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">now the ideas variations </span><span name="amsg134936" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">of </span><span name="amsg134937" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">[ </span><span name="amsg134937" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">...] ICT, all </span><span name="amsg134938" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">of those are something where </span><span name="amsg134939" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">we have what we can call </span><span name="amsg134940" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">standard </span><span name="amsg134941" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">protocols.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134942" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Behind the standard protocols are other </span><span name="amsg134943" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">bodies, union core, </span><span name="amsg134944" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">WTC and the like, </span><span name="amsg134945" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">all of which </span><span name="amsg134946" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">refer or relate to saiding </span><span name="amsg134947" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">up standards </span><span name="amsg134948" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">through conferences </span><span name="amsg134949" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and dialogue discourse.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134950" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">The whole issue -- I am </span><span name="amsg134951" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">sure my friend from </span><span name="amsg134952" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Google would like </span><span name="amsg134953" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to respond when those issues </span><span name="amsg134954" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">come up -- when governments </span><span name="amsg134955" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">across the globe look in their </span><span name="amsg134956" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">respective spheres as </span><span name="amsg134957" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to what should be regulated, and in </span><span name="amsg134958" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the Indian </span><span name="amsg134959" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">context, our information technology Act, you </span><span name="amsg134960" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">look </span><span name="amsg134961" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">at features </span><span name="amsg134962" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">or aspects </span><span name="amsg134963" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">which govern society and </span><span name="amsg134964" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">that which govern society, you try to bring </span><span name="amsg134965" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">about the regulation in order to </span><span name="amsg134966" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ensure that within a</span><span name="amsg134967" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">speck sovereign </span><span name="amsg134968" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">boundary, you </span><span name="amsg134969" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">try and delineate what should be </span><span name="amsg134970" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">allowed and what should not </span><span name="amsg134971" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">be, according to a </span><span name="amsg134972" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">set of social </span><span name="amsg134973" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">mores defined in that particular </span><span name="amsg134974" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">soavment this is exactly </span><span name="amsg134975" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">what </span><span name="amsg134976" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">we feel the sovereign </span><span name="amsg134977" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">responsibility is in the whole </span><span name="amsg134978" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">process of legislation, and the government </span><span name="amsg134979" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">tries to create </span><span name="amsg134980" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">discourse and dialogue in order to </span><span name="amsg134981" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">bring about what we call </span><span name="amsg134982" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">legislation and a set of rules.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134983" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Whenever there is </span><span name="amsg134984" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">a new </span><span name="amsg134985" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">diversion or way </span><span name="amsg134986" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">in which things work, there is </span><span name="amsg134987" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">always </span><span name="amsg134988" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">a certain amount of </span><span name="amsg134988" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">... </span><span name="amsg134989" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">but at the end of the day we have to have give </span><span name="amsg134990" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and take and see each </span><span name="amsg134991" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">other's point of view.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134992" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">I am </span><span name="amsg134993" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">getting to the point </span><span name="amsg134994" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">of the ideas per se.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg134995" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">The idea is </span><span name="amsg134996" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">a body which has been </span><span name="amsg134997" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">created in a manner to have </span><span name="amsg134998" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">open forum, </span><span name="amsg134999" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">open dialogue with </span><span name="amsg135000" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">multistakeholders. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg135000" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Even ICANN and </span><span name="amsg135001" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">APNIC are also </span><span name="amsg135002" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">multistakeholders in that respect.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg135003" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">However, the idea of this </span><span name="amsg135004" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">multistakeholders in the sense that </span><span name="amsg135005" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">it has </span><span name="amsg135006" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">industry, </span><span name="amsg135007" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">academic and society and the government </span><span name="amsg135008" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">in the process of the </span><span name="amsg135009" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">MAG. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg135009" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">I would like </span><span name="amsg135010" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to dwell upon </span><span name="amsg135011" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the way in which </span><span name="amsg135012" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the MAG should work, because when</span><span name="amsg135013" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the renewal of the </span><span name="amsg135014" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ideas </span><span name="amsg135015" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">ernetprocess has occurred, we from the Government </span><span name="amsg135016" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">of India</span><span name="amsg135017" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">articulated the vie </span><span name="amsg135018" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">point that while the idea </span><span name="amsg135019" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">has worked well, we feel it should move</span><span name="amsg135020" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">towards a new paradigm, </span><span name="amsg135021" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">being that it </span><span name="amsg135022" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">should have a development orientation and should </span><span name="amsg135023" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">move in the direction of an </span><span name="amsg135024" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">outcome orientation.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg135025" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">The </span><span name="amsg135026" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">development orientation because as one of the </span><span name="amsg135027" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">developing economies, we </span><span name="amsg135028" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">feel that the Internet and several </span><span name="amsg135029" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">issues relating to </span><span name="amsg135030" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the governance and related </span><span name="amsg135031" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">aspects would be only </span><span name="amsg135032" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">when it has </span><span name="amsg135033" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">some socio-economic growth and </span><span name="amsg135034" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">inclusiveness into it.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg135035" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">That is why, when we </span><span name="amsg135036" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">hosted the third IGF in </span><span name="amsg135037" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">India at </span><span name="amsg135038" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Hider be a </span><span name="amsg135039" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">add, we </span><span name="amsg135040" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">called it Internet for all, and </span><span name="amsg135041" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the idea of Internet </span><span name="amsg135042" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">for all was inclusive growth.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg135043" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Subsequently, the chairman </span><span name="amsg135044" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">at Vilnius also </span><span name="amsg135045" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">adopted that, and </span><span name="amsg135046" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the movement has been towards the </span><span name="amsg135047" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">development paradigm, rather than any </span><span name="amsg135048" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">other contentious issues of the</span><span name="amsg135049" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Internet.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg135050" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">There are two tracks in the </span><span name="amsg135051" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">idea, one is the enhanced cooperation </span><span name="amsg135052" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and another is what is </span><span name="amsg135053" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">called implements </span><span name="amsg135054" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">of idea. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg135054" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">We have </span><span name="amsg135055" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">articulated views for the implement of the </span><span name="amsg135056" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">idea, but the enhanced</span><span name="amsg135057" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">cooperation, we feel certain </span><span name="amsg135058" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">aspects which are falling under </span><span name="amsg135059" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the domain of the</span><span name="amsg135060" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">UNSCD should </span><span name="amsg135061" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">move to such a platform, </span><span name="amsg135062" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">so that the bodies </span><span name="amsg135063" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">can discuss the public policy </span><span name="amsg135064" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">issues. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg135064" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Today there is no such </span><span name="amsg135065" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">entity or </span><span name="amsg135066" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">committee which can do that, </span><span name="amsg135067" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">[ </span><span name="amsg135067" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">...] and many of the</span><span name="amsg135068" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">issues which have been mentioned by </span><span name="amsg135069" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the </span><span name="amsg135070" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">[ </span><span name="amsg135070" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">...]-on </span><span name="amsg135071" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">member of parliament </span><span name="amsg135072" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">from Bangladesh, we need to talk </span><span name="amsg135073" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">on public policy </span><span name="amsg135074" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">issues, for which we need </span><span name="amsg135075" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">an outcome orientation </span><span name="amsg135076" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">and this would help us look at </span><span name="amsg135077" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">it as a </span><span name="amsg135078" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">committee of nations, in order </span><span name="amsg135079" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to move toward commonality </span><span name="amsg135080" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">of thought and purpose. </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
<span name="amsg135080" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">I would like </span><span name="amsg135081" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">to leave </span><span name="amsg135082" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">it at this and </span><span name="amsg135083" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">thank the panel </span><span name="amsg135084" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">for giving me </span><span name="amsg135085" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">the opportunity to express my </span><span name="amsg135086" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">vie point. </span></blockquote>
<br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium"><span name="amsg135086" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Thank you </span><span name="amsg135087" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">>>Rohan Samarajiva: I would like to invite Mr </span><span name="amsg135088" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Paul </span><span name="amsg135089" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">Wilson, Director General of APNIC, to make </span><span name="amsg135090" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">his openings comments.</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:20px;font-size:medium">
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