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On 28/05/12 14:23, Andrea Glorioso wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:CAOLD2+YB7zwfereN48V=0uZ-z=2K67B9u4i4Z4hqwsFJ+K8k8w@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">both during the WSIS week in Geneva and recently on
this mailing list I had the occasion to hear/read a number of
persons claiming (rather forcefully) that the conclusions of the
WSIS "clearly" meant the IGF to be the or at least an instrument
to implement Enhanced Cooperation.
<p>Leaving aside for a moment the subsequent UNGA resolution on
the matter (but noting that even though, strictly speaking, we
are not talking about binding international law, the principle
of "lex posterior" could apply) I would be curious to know your
views on which passages of the WSIS texts could lead to such
conclusion. </p>
</blockquote>
<br>
Lazily, just copying and pasting from page 518 of my 2008 book on
the IGF (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://books.google.com.my/books?id=G8ETBPD6jHIC">http://books.google.com.my/books?id=G8ETBPD6jHIC</a>):<br>
<br>
"...there is no clear division between the role of the IGF and the
process of enhanced cooperation in the Tunis Agenda; rather the
former is treated as an integral component of the latter.[341] What
can be taken from this is that whilst governments will continue to
maintain sovereignty over the authoritative statement of public
policy principles in international and domestic law, those
principles are to be developed in a multi-stakeholder forum, the IGF
(from where they may equally find implementation through other,
non-legal mechanisms of governance)."<br>
<br>
[341] See WSIS, Tunis Agenda for the Information Society (as in n. 5
on page 2), paras 67–72, in<br>
which the middle paragraphs on enhanced cooperation are sandwiched
by those calling for the<br>
establishment of the IGF.<br>
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