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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Thursday 18 April 2013 12:24 AM,
michael gurstein wrote:<br>
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but can anyone point to an authoritative
definition/description of what exactly is meant by "the
successful multistakeholder model that governs the Internet"
i.e. what exactly was the US Congress voting unanimously to
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for instance, whether NTIA's exclusive exercising of the root zone
authorisation function is to be considered as a part of the
'successful multistakeholder (MS) model' or not... And if it is
indeed MS, then if <i>exactly</i> the same function is tranferred
to a multinational committee (without changing anything else about
ICANN plus system at all) why would that not still continue to be
called as a MS system, and not a movement from MSism to government
control?<br>
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And whether OECD's inter governmental Council and its
inter-governmental Committee on Information, Communication and
Computer Policy doing considerable (global) Internet policy work, in
consultation with other stakeholders, but only giving them an
advisory capacity, should be considered as an aspect of the
'successful MS model or not. If so, whether a similar UN based
inter-gov committee with similar (or better) advisory status based
relationships with other stakeholders will continue to be called as
a MS system, or would that somehow, magically, become classified as
a move towards government control? <br>
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The above two are the simple and straight forward demands of most
developing countries (leave out a few authoritarian ones whose
demand we dont have to consider/ concede) . Both these demands <i>do
not at all change the degree of MSism in the present global IG
architecture </i>(I am happy to be challenged on this) . However,
evidently this new US law is basically aimed at resisting these
democratic demands of developing countries, and the sad part is that
most of the global civil society seems to be ready to get hoodwinked
by such obviously less than honest professions of MSism and fight
against governemnt control over the Internet. It is just a fight for
preserving US control (gov plus business) over the global Internet -
that is all what it is. And CS should resist it, seeking greater
democratisation..<br>
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parminder <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org">governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org">mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>John Curran<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] US House Bill to Affirm
the Policy of the United States Regarding Internet
Governance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Apr 12, 2013, at 8:56 PM, Jeremy
Malcolm <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"It is the policy of the
United States to promote a global Internet free
from government control and to preserve and
advance the successful multistakeholder
model that governs the Internet."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This bill was just approved by the House
Committee on Energy and Commerce; it it is now <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">H.R. 1580, a bill to affirm the policy of
the United States regarding Internet governance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF00/20130417/100723/BILLS-113pih-InternetFreedom.pdf">http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF00/20130417/100723/BILLS-113pih-InternetFreedom.pdf</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The policy text has been changed to
only the following:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> "It is the policy of the United
States to preserve and advance the successful
multistakeholder<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> model that governs the
Internet."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Given that it has bipartisan support, it
is likely to move fairly quickly to adoption. The actual
net<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">effect of such a statement becoming
official USG policy is subject to interpretation, but it
would <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">definitely make it difficult for the USG
to back away from the "multistakeholder model" at any<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">point in the future.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">FYI,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/John<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Disclaimers: My views alone. No congress
critters were harmed in the production of this email.<o:p></o:p></p>
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