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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">I agree, reading tea leaves, it is notable the US statement pointed to 'Best Bits' and IGF.
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Re Internet Rights and Principles, fyi I am folding the 10 into the WiGiT v0.2 Open Specs to be released next week at an industry event in Orlando, even as the governments hang in Dubai.
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Meaning we will - sort of - have gotten Wall Street and tech industry CIOs more or less accepting IRP without even knowing it, since they'll likely have not read carefully that part of our fine print. ; ) Of course it's all iterative drafts so significance
is unclear. But it is better if mobile cloud to edge services come with rights and principles, than not, right.<br>
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I'll share pointers to at least some of those docs next week.<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF41310"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org [governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org] on behalf of michael gurstein [gurstein@gmail.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 30, 2012 8:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'John Curran'<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> RE: [governance] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/net-us-un-internet-idUSBRE8AQ06320121127<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">And I think the<a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2012/necessity-inclusive-transparent-and-participatory-internet" target="_blank"> just released statement
by the US delegation to WCIT</a> begins some significant movement in the direction of those processes…
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Now how to capitalize on this and its general support for the "<a href="http://bestbits.igf-online.net/statement/" target="_blank">Best Bits statement</a>"
(which includes that "Fundamental to the framing of public policy (for the Internet) must be the pursuit of the public interest and fundamental human rights..."); perhaps starting by revisiting
<a href="http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/40/21/48289796.pdf" target="_blank">the OECD Internet policy principles</a> to resolve the areas of CS concern which led to
<a href="http://csisac.org/CSISAC_PR_06292011.pdf" target="_blank">CS not signing onto the final OECD document</a>; and also beginning a process of becoming more globally inclusive in this development (as for example using the IRP statement of
<a href="http://irpcharter.org/campaign/" target="_blank">Internet Rights & Principles</a> which have a strong anchor in Human Rights/the UDHRD as a conceptual/normative foundation).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Beginning with the above but then initiating a much broader and more inclusive global norm-setting process as for example, through a reformed and much more
inclusive IGF (designed to be something other than a place to swap business cards and chat) or towards an update of the WSIS declaration in light of what has transpired in the last ten years or so…</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> John Curran [mailto:jcurran@istaff.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 30, 2012 2:15 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> michael gurstein<br>
<b>Cc:</b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/net-us-un-internet-idUSBRE8AQ06320121127</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Nov 30, 2012, at 12:26 PM, michael gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">That challenge is to find a way that we all globally, can allow the Internet to fulfill the possibilities for all of us that it presents (and in ways that
are meaningful to all of us in our global diversity) -- and that means finding a way to reconcile sometimes extremely divergent interests and perspectives concerning for example, what issues are important/necessary to resolve and where they can be resolved
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<p class="MsoNormal">The challenge is that the Internet is truly a global system, and we lack good mechanisms</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There are some feedback loops which operate reasonable well in the context of a single </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">country. (For example, the response of consumers, and civil society on their behalf, to </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"bad" decisions by businesses with respect to privacy results in lots of attention, and</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In an ideal world, there would be a way to encourage productive discussion of the various</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">scope, and such discussions would multistakeholder in nature, open in participation, and </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">accomplishing such, since making the final determinations of what is appropriate public </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">policy is one of areas that has been considered the realm of governments, and yet we are</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If we could produce clear statements of public policy principles, and the statements were </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">to keep the Internet running. Likewise, if folks working on such standards and policies </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">developments, it would help in avoiding conflicts between Internet practices and the </p>
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