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Resending without digital signature. It's been reported to me that
the list is messing up my emails and making them blank, and I think
the digital signature is to blame.<br>
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On 16/05/12 22:54, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Attached (and below) is a statement and proposal on EC that we hope to
discuss further, online, and then also in the CSTD consultation on
enhanced cooperation on Friday 18 May here in Geneva. Note that this is
not yet an official APC position. Members are still discussing it.
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Thanks for the opportunity to give feedback on this draft statement
Anriette (which I am re-attaching for the benefit of the CC
recipients). Personally and wearing my Consumers International hat,
we are convinced of the need for all stakeholders to collaboratively
develop a better global norm-setting framework for addressing
border-crossing public policy issues concerning the Internet.<br>
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India's CIRP model was welcome as the first serious proposal to
respond to the enhanced cooperation mandate from WSIS, which had
otherwise been deliberately neglected by all stakeholders who were
either privileged under the status quo, or were too risk-averse to
sanction the consideration of more globally democratic alternatives.<br>
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However, it would be premature to endorse the CIRP model (as the IT
for Change statement does too much for our liking), before all
stakeholders have had an opportunity to collaborate on improving it,
in a setting such as the CSTD working group that the IT for Change
statement (to its credit) calls for, or the IGF working group that
APC is proposing to call for through this statement.<br>
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Such a group, whether at the CSTD or the IGF, may be able to reach
consensus on a less traditional institutional form, that is further
from the UK-linked multilateral body that the CIRP represents, and
closer to a balanced network of stakeholders in which power over
Internet policy development is shared, as in a consociation. This
ultimately would be a better outcome for civil society.<br>
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In either case, the first step is the formation of such a
multi-stakeholder working group, and we therefore wholeheartedly
support both the APC statement and the IT for Change statement in
that regard. Our member in Geneva, Romain Houéhou, will be
expressing these sentiments during the consultation meeting.
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