<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>I find the use of the term "agency" a bit odd. In the UN context, "agencies" are sectoral bodies of the UN (like the ITU of course).</div><div><br></div><div>The word should be "agents" instead I guess.</div><div><br></div><div>--c.a.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:100%">Carlos A. Afonso</div></div> <br>Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp> escreveu:<br><http://wcit-proposals.info/><br>Makes all the WCIT proposals available in a pretty easy to use format.<br> It's good.<br><br>Discussions starting to get serious and contentious issues seem to<br>have moved to informal working groups, particularly the definition of<br>telecoms and whether for the purposes of the ITRs it should include<br>Internet, and to what entities the ITRs should apply: Recognized<br>Operating Agencies (effectively telecommunications companies licensed<br>at that national level) or Operating Agencies (any and all providers<br>of International telecommunications, from a rural telecentre to<br>Google, Skype and AT&T.)<br><br>Other issues seem to be dumped it committee sub-groups that aren't<br>being webcast (at least not today.)<br><br>Russia's proposal on "Internet" also seems to be discussed in one of<br>these informal sessions (and for some reason Dr. Toure is silent,<br>thou he promised WCIC wouldn't be about Internet governance.)<br><br>Russian text copied below.<br><br>Adam<br><br><br>REVISION 1 TO<br>DOCUMENT 27-E<br>17 NOVEMBER 2012<br>ORIGINAL: RUSSIAN<br>ARTICLE 3A<br>Internet<br><br>ADD RUS/27/7<br>31A 3A.1 Internet governance shall be effected through the development<br>and application by governments, the private sector and civil society<br>of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures and<br>programmes that shape the evolution and use of the Internet.<br><br>Reasons: § 34 of the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, WSIS,<br>Geneva 2003 - Tunis 2005.<br><br>ADD RUS/27/8<br>31B 3A.2 Member States shall have equal rights to manage the Internet,<br>including in regard to the allotment, assignment and reclamation of<br>Internet numbering, naming, addressing and identification resources<br>and to support for the operation and development of basic Internet<br>infrastructure.<br><br>Reasons: §§ 38, 52 and 53 of the Tunis Agenda for the Information<br>Society, WSIS, Geneva 2003 - Tunis 2005.<br><br>ADD RUS/27/9<br>31C 3A.3 Member States shall have the sovereign right to establish and<br>implement public policy, including international policy, on matters of<br>Internet governance, and to regulate the national Internet segment, as<br>well as the activities within their territory of operating agencies<br>providing Internet access or carrying Internet traffic.<br><br>Reasons: Preamble to the ITU Constitution and §§ 35a, 58, 64, 65, 68<br>and 69 of the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, WSIS, Geneva<br>2003 - Tunis 2005.<br><br>ADD RUS/27/10<br>31D 3A.4 Member States should endeavour to establish policies aimed at<br>meeting public requirements with respect to Internet access and use,<br>and at assisting, including through international cooperation,<br>administrations and operating agencies in supporting the operation and<br>development of the Internet.<br><br>Reasons: Article 33 of the ITU Constitution and §§ 31, 37, 49 and 50<br>of the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, WSIS, Geneva 2003 -<br>Tunis 2005.<br><br>ADD RUS/27/11<br>31E 3A.5 Member States should ensure that administrations and<br>operating agencies cooperate in ensuring the integrity, reliable<br>operation and security of the national Internet segment, direct<br>relations for the carrying of Internet traffic and the basic Internet<br>infrastructure.<br><br>Reasons: Article 38 of the ITU Constitution, §§ 39-41, 44 and 45 of<br>the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, WSIS, Geneva 2003 -<br>Tunis 2005.<br><br></body>