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Dear Vlada<br>
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Thanks from me for this report too. Also thank you to some of the
civil society experts who were present who updated me on what
happened.<br>
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I am gradually coming back to mail after spending some much needed
time with my family who have to put up with me neglecting them for
most of the year. <br>
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Good that the HP panel will produce a written document. I think that
is often the best mechanism in terms of civil society being able to
get its ideas into a process. And the submissions from CS that went
into the CSTD process has a lot of very valuable content that can be
drawn on.<br>
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Best to everyone for the new year.<br>
<br>
Anriette<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/12/2013 04:29, Izumi AIZU wrote:<br>
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Carolina<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear
colleagues,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">here are
few lines on my impressions of
what happened at the
High Level Panel meeting in
London on Friday. I hope it
will help us better understand
the intentions and potentials
of this (dynamically evolving
and self-reshaping)
initiative.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was there
in status of an observer,
representing Diplo who
was invited among others by
ICANN to provide its expertise
and assist the
drafting of report by the HL
panel. The Panel event was
under Chatham House
rule, so I will try to bring
as many details as possible
while still respecting
this rule. The views below are
my personal, as I saw the
discussions and the
process. Besides the
impressions below, I (and
several others) have been
extensively tweeting with
#InternetPanel (read <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/search?had_popular=true&q=InternetPanel"
title="https://twitter.com/search?had_popular=true&q=InternetPanel"
target="_blank">here</a>)
so you can get a pretty good
snapshot of key points in
discussion through that.
Formal Press Release has been
published and is available <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/high-level-panel-on-global-internet-cooperation-and-governance-mechanisms-convenes-in-london-235789861.html"
title="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/high-level-panel-on-global-internet-cooperation-and-governance-mechanisms-convenes-in-london-235789861.html"
target="_blank">here</a>
– it brings more or less all
the basic info on topics and
participants of the
meeting as well as the future
timeline.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>HL Group
and experts</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Panel
includes 21 members listed in
the Press Release;
additionally, a final one
(Anriette from APC) has been
accepted during the
meeting in London to reflect
loud civil society requests.
Panel is dominated by
tech and corporate sector,
with few yet high level
representatives of
governments; only now there is
a panel member from civil
society organisation. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It was my
impression that initially the
entire HL Panel was
composed based on “names”
rather than on representation
of stakeholders; yet it
appears that it was
acknowledged at the end that
the absence of civil society
organisations can hurt the
process. On the other hand,
civil society experts
dominate the expert group who
is supposed to assist with
drafting the final
report – as the agenda in
press release shows. As an
observer (replacing Jovan
who was invited as expert but
was not able to join in
London), I did not have
chance to formally raise civil
society concerns expressed on
this list and
elsewhere, but other experts
were involved in formal
discussion. I hope
Anriette’s formal presence in
future will extend this direct
opportunity.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At London
meeting there were most of
Panel members, the experts,
dozen of observers assisting
Panel members or as guests,
and some ICANN staff –
total about 50 people, invited
by ICANN. These are likely the
people that will
gather also in the next phases
of the work. I suppose there
will be no further
changes in composition of the
panel. I also got the
impression the following
two meetings will not be
opened for observers rather
than those invited
directly or related to panel
members, nor there will be
greater transparency
during the meetings; instead,
it seems public consultations
(primarily on 1Net)
will be the public inputs into
the work of the panel.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Task</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Panel
has decided to be titled
“Panel on global Internet
cooperation and governance
mechanisms”. Their goal is to
prepare a blueprint
document – a report – as
described in press release.
The focus of London
discussions
was on mapping the ecosystem
and needs, discussing the
“desirable properties”
of future system, and agreeing
on next steps. While there
were interesting
discussions, my impression was
that there were very few new
aspects on the
table yet. It is my hope that
the panel (and especially the
experts who do have
extensive knowledge of
already-discussed issues in
and various fora in previous
years) will reflect to
valuable outputs of previous
IGF and other meetings
rather than reinventing the
wheel. It was confirmed that
the summary of
discussion points will be
posted to 1Net.org soon asking
for community
reflections.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The final
draft of the report should be
ready during second
HL meeting in US end February;
then it should be formally
submitted as
contribution to Sao Paolo
meeting and Freedom Online
conference in Tallinn in
April, and offered for public
consultations towards the next
draft (not sure if
only through 1Net, but
probably will not be limited
to that). It is supposed
the draft report will find its
place in the Sao Paolo meeting
as well. The
outputs of this and public
discussions will be fed into
the final report to be
wrapped up during the third
meeting in Dubai in early May.
It should then be
fed into various processes
incl. ICANN meeting in London
in June, IGF in
September, etc. It is
important to mention that the
relevance and legitimacy of
IGF was mentioned several
times in discussions, and I
had a feeling that the
panel and experts are aware
that this process should
contribute to (and
possibly strengthen) the IGF
rather than undermine it.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Other
components</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My
impression was that there was
distancing by ICANN and the
HL panel from the Sao Paolo
meeting. Brazil meeting was
mentioned only once at
the end as a place where the
report may be discussed – and
was mentioned as
only one such opportunity.
There was no feeling that Sao
Paolo conference is
part of this initiative. At
the same time the news was
spread that Brazilian
president Rousseff met French
President Holland and that
France might support Sao
Paolo meeting (I found no
direct confirmation for this
in news yet however –
pointers welcomed if anyone
has).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On the
other hand 1Net was mentioned
several times as the
place in which public
contributions on the draft
report should be provided. It
was of course only the
reference to 1Net with regards
to the HL Panel work, but
it is possible that 1Net was
envisaged with a broader goal;
there was no
further info however on how
1Net will proceed, nor on its
Steering Committees
or further steps.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Timeline</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The
timeline of meetings was
presented in the press release
as well. Yet let me combine it
here with the updated info on
other relevant 2014
events mentioned and not
mentioned in London:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">22-25
January, Davos: Side-meeting
of the HL Panel during
WEF annual meeting</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">27-28
February, US: 2nd HL meeting</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">31 March,
Dubai (rather than Sharm): ITU
WTDC</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">23-24
April, Sao Paolo: Brazil
conference</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">28-29
April, Tallinn: Freedom Online
Conference</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3-4 May,
Dubai: 3rd (final) HL meeting</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I hope this
shed bit more light on what
this whole new
initiative will be about. It
is slightly clearer to me now,
though I still have
lots of questions about 1Net.
It is my belief that we should
try to, whatever
the initial idea behind 1Net
was (and also the HL Panel),
explore its
potentials to strengthen the
IGF and improve communications
among professional
(and stakeholder) silos.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>
</span>Vlada</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PS Sorry
for a rather long email.. I
decided to be detailed in this
case, and mention as much as
possible.<br>
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