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On 01/06/12 17:11, Norbert Bollow wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:20120601091105.7A2501F5A@quill.bollow.ch"
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>
<br>
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and was eventually superseded by WSIS the following year.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 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>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="color:black">Dr
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