<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div><br></div><div>JC it was a mere fyi, no endorsement at all</div><div>Best,</div><div>Lorena</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:100%">Von Samsung Galaxy Note gesendet</div></div> <br>JFC Morfin <jefsey@jefsey.com> hat geschrieben:<br>
Lorena,<br><br>
I certainly fully support the work accomplished by the French Senate.
However, these propositions should be considered within the perspective
of the WSIS MSism. It is a proposition by Governements. We need in
parallel a position by the European industry, and one by the European
people to be fully constructive. <br><br>
We just had the 15th Libre Software Meeting
(<a href="http://2014.rmll.info/" eudora="autourl">
http://2014.rmll.info</a>): it shown that time is probably near when
Libre Networking can emerge with a technically advanced vision of the
Internet Use toward the second multitechnology transparent/innovation
oriented motivation of the initial IEN 48 project that has been delayed
by the "statUS-quo" strategy. This comes at a time this
strategy has been revisited by the RFC 6852
(<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6852" eudora="autourl">
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6852</a>) assigning an fragmented economic
mission to the technology, to the interest of "global
communities". <br><br>
I think ICANN participates from the "Being Unilaterally Global"
BUG. To help ICANN survive, it must have organized competition; otherwise
we will be in a mess once EU, Russia, China, etc. States and people stop
trusting its ability to "Be Unilaterally Global". An opposition
US/EU is certainly possible (the NTIA has said it will not accept a State
led solution: this is only the position of one State on 193. Our own
concern is at our own VGN (virtual glocal netwok) level. This means
villages, cities, regions, trades, languages. While big blocks opposes
over ICANN and NTIA, we can build at our own level. From the reactions of
Libre Software Meeting people to my (French) slides, I would say this is
not yet the begining, but now very near from it.<br><br>
In the French document German and Europe's people have been interviewed.
It might be time that our Libre people network together at technical
level. The US business has top down fragmented the internet. May be could
we federate it back in a geographical/professional bottom-up EU
move?<br><br>
jfc<br><br>
<br>
At 13:24 14/07/2014, Lorena Jaume-Palasi wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite="">fyi - regards,<br>
Lorena<br><br>
<a href="http://www.euractiv.com/sections/innovation-enterprise/eu-internet-governance-franco-german-alliance-303421">
http://www.euractiv.com/sections/innovation-enterprise/eu-internet-governance-franco-german-alliance-303421</a>
<br><br>
A new report from the French Senate outlines a strategy for greater
European internet governance spearheaded by the Franco-German alliance.
Only then can the EU compete with USâs online hegemony.
<a href="http://www.euractiv.fr/sections/innovation-entreprises/le-couple-franco-allemand-appele-au-secours-de-la-gouvernance-du-net">
EurActiv France reports</a>.<br><br>
In a report published on 9 July, the French Senate proposed a new form of
internet governance for Europe. The senators called on the EU to play a
key role in ensuring that internet governance is independent and
democratic.<br><br>
According to Senator Gaëtan Gorce, head of the Senateâs mission,
appropriately titled
<a href="http://www.senat.fr/espace_presse/actualites/201311/quel_role_pour_lue_dans_la_gouvernance_mondiale_de_linternet.html">
New role and new strategy for the European Union in the global governance
of the internet</a>, âthe Snowden affair came as a blessingâ, because
it exposed the companies which store huge amounts of personal data. The
revelations shook up public opinion, and people realised the importance
of healthy internet governance.<br>
<br>
The US is the global leader of the digital sector: 36 of the 50 top
digital media companies are American.<br><br>
<b>>> Read:
<a href="http://www.euractiv.com/infosociety/eu-challenges-us-hegemony-global-news-532137?__utma=1.1941482581.1377502382.1404984083.1404993689.261&__utmb=1.31.9.1404999357969&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1404920422.257.23.utmcsr=google%7Cutmccn=%28organic%29%7Cutmcmd=organic%7Cutmctr=%28not%20provided%29&__utmv=-&__utmk=188486568">
EU challenges US hegemony in global internet governance</a><br>
</b><br>
âInternet governance has become a geopolitical issue. It is a new
global battleground,â said Senator Catherine Morin-Desailly.<br><br>
<b>Reforming internet governance<br>
</b><br>
The report contains 62 proposals aimed at âestablishing a national and
European strategy to secure our place on the digital world stage,â said
Morin-Desailly. The Senate wants to improve internet governance through
âan international treaty open to all states and an online ratification
process for internet users.â It also wants to transform the Internet
Governance Forum into a World Internet Council, which would control the
conformity of decisions regarding internet governance.<br><br>
The report also proposes to restructure the
<a href="https://www.icann.org/">ICANN</a>, a non-profit organisation
that coordinates the Internet's global domain name system. It would
become the World ICANN (WICANN), conform to international law instead of
Californian law, and be accountable to the World Internet Council. An
independent and accessible appeal mechanism would be set up to allow
revision of WICANN decisions.<br><br>
<b>>> Read:
<a href="http://www.euractiv.com/sections/infosociety/french-concerns-over-geographical-indications-will-hamper-ttip-talks-302856?__utma=1.1941482581.1377502382.1404984083.1404993689.261&__utmb=1.37.9.1405000189134&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1404920422.257.23.utmcsr=google%7Cutmccn=%28organic%29%7Cutmcmd=organic%7Cutmctr=%28not%20provided%29&__utmv=-&__utmk=18103865">
French concerns over geographical indications will hamper TTIP
talks</a><br>
</b><br>
On 26 June, the French Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, Axelle
Lemaire, took an assertive stance against the ICANN. In a
<a href="http://www.economie.gouv.fr/presse/communiques/37192">press
release</a>, she said that she did not see the ICANN as âa suitable
body to discuss internet governance.â<br><br>
<b>Europe must make itself heard<br>
</b><br>
The authors of the report claimed that Europe is not vocal enough in
discussions about internet governance. It supports a previous report by
Catherin Morin-Desailly,<i> The European Union, digital colony?</i>
(December 2013). In it, Morin-Desailly stressed that Europe had fallen
behind: âEuropeâs position is shrinking. Two years ago 12 European
companies featured in the worldâs top-hundred largest high-tech
companies, but now there are only eight.â<br><br>
Morin-Desailly wants the EU to âtake its digital destiny into its own
hands and make it a top political priorityâ. She believes that the EU
should âbuild a European industrial strategy to gain more control over
our data and convey our values". It would be linked to digital
diplomacy âwith a clear doctrine and financial meansâ in order to
promote European values online.<br><br>
<b>Franco-German partnership<br>
</b><br>
There is a lack of political will. Paris could spearhead the action, but
it needs allies. The senators believe that the France-German partnership
could be the engine behind Europeâs ambitions of internet
governance.<br><br>
A Franco-German alliance based on data-security is possible because of
Germanyâs interest in the area. The report proposes two concrete
industrial projects: a mobile operating system and a secure and open
European Cloud.<br><br>
Gaëtan Gorce said it is in the EUâs interests to âaffirm its
principles and not to be shy,â emphasising the need to âspeak as one
and be coherent".<br>
<a href="http://www.euractiv.com/bylines/anne-claude-martin-i-euractivfr-article-translated-french">
Anne-Claude Martin I EurActiv.fr - article translated from
French</a><br><br>
<br>
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