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Dear Jeremy,<br>
did you really think it would be anything else than a bluff to get us out
the technical loop :-) !!!<br>
The issue is NOT a mis-named summit, it is a MS technical community
minority preparation of the WSIS 2015 third cession as requested by China
and G77.<br>
Best<br>
jfc<br><br>
<br>
At 03:06 18/11/2013, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 18/11/13 08:43, John Curran
wrote:<br>
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<pre>A high-level panel has been organized to consider the issues
surrounding global Internet cooperation -
"The Panel plans to release a high-level report in early 2014 for
public comment. The report will include principles for global Internet
cooperation, proposed frameworks for such cooperation and a roadmap for
future Internet governance challenges."
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So it seems that ICANN has taken it upon itself to select the civil
society representatives for the High Level Panel on the Future of Global
Internet Cooperation, which is what became of its 5th panel on Internet
evolution. Previously Fadi had claimed that the fate of the 5th
panel would be a decision for (what is now) the 1net dialogue, but
evidently this was just more bluff.<br><br>
The civil society representatives that ICANN helpful chose on our behalf
do not include the most expert names on Internet governance
evolution. And meanwhile ISOC is "representing" civil
society in other processes such as in the UNGA draft resolution on the
right to privacy in the digital age. The technical community,
supported by its hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, is eating
broader civil society alive.<br><br>
We are being completely left behind while we are dithering over questions
about whether to send the letter nominating our representatives to the
Brazil meeting, and whether our mailing list should be open or
closed. It is absolutely imperative now that we put internal
process issues on hold, and focus on urgent substantive issues.<br><br>
Will post something more practical about all this to the new (though now
already mis-named) "summit" list.<br><br>
<br>
-- <br><br>
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