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Jeremy and Norbert,<br>
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With ICANN's initial new TLD process having recently closed, and
with hearsay indicating that several cities have applied for TLDs,
perhaps the Enhanced Cooperation framework might be piloted on city
TLDs. Then, with success, it might be broadened. <br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Tom Lowenhaupt<br>
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On 6/1/2012 5:37 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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Sorry, I'll just disable the blasted digital signature for good.<br>
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On 01/06/12 17:11, Norbert Bollow wrote:
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type="cite">My vision for Enhanced Cooperation is to put both
areas together, jointly, under a single institutional "Enhanced
Cooperation Task Force" framework, modeled to some extent on the
IETF, and a single set of process principles that are designed
to operate as closely as possible to what Daniel Kalchev calls
"the 'common sense' law that every human being on this planet
knows unconditionally". The output of this "Enhanced Cooperation
Task Force" would be Request For Action (RFA) documents, which
analogously to RFCs would not have direct legal force, but
they'd be informative and persuasive and maybe eventually any
government that doesn't follow the recommendations of the RFAs
without giving really good reasons for choosing differently will
get voted out of office quickly. </blockquote>
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Really interesting and audacious. Back in 1997 ISOC formed an
Internet Societal Task Force (ISTF) that was intended as a
counterpart to the IETF and the IRTF, but dealing with public
policy issues. It never took off due to lack of involvement by
governments and was eventually superseded by WSIS the following
year. Actually when I commenced my doctoral studies on Internet
governance my intention was also to propose an IETF-like body for
public policy issues, though what I eventually proposed bore more
less resemblance to the IETF. Others (including Avri) made
similar proposals that the IGF should adopt an IETF-like model:
see <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/contributions/IETF-as-model.pdf">http://www.intgovforum.org/contributions/IETF-as-model.pdf</a>.<br>
<br>
So whilst I would have opposed this if the CSTD had recommended to
form its on working group on EC, since they didn't, I would
support us forming one anyway, and inviting governments to
participate in it. I foresee that they will ignore the invitation
because the group hasn't been formed by the UN, but let's do it
anyway and see how much traction the group can get without them.<br>
<br>
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