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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/07/12 21:00, parminder wrote:<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Remove the oversight
function of India's proposed UN Committee on
Internet Related Policies (something I think India, and other
CIRP
backers, may be willing to consider) and we have almost the
exact
function and structure as of OECD's CCICP, but with all
countries being
present rather than just the rich ones. (and a more expansive
participation model than the CCICP).<br>
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On what basis can we be opposed to such an institutional
structure,
as one way of taking forward 'enhanced cooperation'? This is an
important part of the enhanced cooperation discussion.
Especially, for
civil society, which is perhaps more concerned with social,
economic,
cultural and political issues rather than security, technical
etc
issues which more centrally implicated on the 'oversight' side
of
enhanced cooperation.</font><br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
To answer this rhetorical question, </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">it is because </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">for many the UN is a bogeyman. In truth of
course, the UN and its agencies are largely toothless and nothing
to be scared of, the authoritarian regimes on one side balancing
out the the corporate plutocracies on the other. Indeed we have
more to fear from the continued lack of a body such as the CIRP,
that could help to shape the behaviour actions of governments and
corporations, than from its existence (particularly in the absence
of an effective IGF, either).<br>
<br>
But this means that we can wait another few years to a decade
until the status quo is more widely seen as intolerable and a
UN-hosted body becomes a more palatable alternative, or we can
simply excise the "UN" part of the CIRP and promote that the
committee be a free-standing international body that would join
the IETF and ICANN in their own areas of competence as a policy
advisory body, albeit that governments would in that case be less
attracted to participate in it as its authority would be less.<br>
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