Draft press release for tomorrow

[parminder at itforchange.net]

To avoid confusion I thought I must state that my email below seeks to
provide a way to go forward with a relatively detailed press note while
considering the problems I earlier stated about the current draft.... The
things I suggested should be removed/ added to the text, i think should
still be removed/ added

thanks

parminder

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> Andrew/ Jeremy/ All
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> I am all for a detailed press note, with real substantive stuff. Something
> which can also give prominence to the BestBits initiative. And i believe
> that it is possible to draft such a detailed press note relying on the
> final statement we agree on by anyone who sat and participated during the
> 2 day meeting, whereby the important concerns of different parties can be
> kept in mind.
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> i suggest we use a heading like 'Internet governance should promote not
> stifle Internet' or something like that
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> I am fine if we include the other, relatively unconnected initiative we
> took on the Internet rights and principles issue in the meeting, in the
> same press note.... but do it by making a reltively distinct seperation -
> starting the para, something like, ---- on another note, the group also
> .....
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> thanks, parminder
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>> I think Parminder's comments highlight the difficulties of producing a
>> detailed press release about an event where the common position was
>> crafted word by word over several hours.
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>> I would support saying y something simple:
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>> CS groups meeting before Baku called for:
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>> Greater transparency in the WCIT negotiations
>> For proposed revisions to the ITRs to be judged by their impact on the
>> public interest and fundamental human rights
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>> Then a quote from Jeremy  followed by details and contacts
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>> I would always keep press releases short
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>> Andrew Puddephatt, Director
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>> On 07/11/2012 20:05, "parminder at itforchange.net"
>> <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
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>>>Hi Jeremy
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>>>A few comments on the draft of the press release
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>>>1. the heading - "NGOs: Internet governance will evolve, but not through
>>>ITU" mis represents what was agreed at the meeting. We did agree in the
>>>last sentence of our statement or an ITU role in net neutrality,
>>> universal
>>>service etc, vis a vis the Internet. At another place too we identify
>>>which layer of the Internet onwards (alone) no 'regulation' should take
>>>place.   In this light, I cant understand why a heading that calls for
>>> the
>>>ITU to take its hands off all parts and aspects of the Internet is being
>>>used.
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>>>2. in a later part of the draft, the phrase 'Besides criticizing the ITR
>>>revision plans' suggests that we want no revision at all of the ITRs, As
>>>someone said at our meeting, even EU (if i remember right) also agrees
>>>that some revisions (in whichever directions)may indeed be needed. So,
>>> the
>>>use of this phrase is not appropriate.
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>>>3. The part " calls upon the ITU to promote principles such as
>>> affordable
>>>access to the Internet and effective competition" seem to conspicuously
>>>miss .net neutrality'. Is there any specific reason for that.
>>>
>>>4. I have a problem with putting the headline as it is , and then saying
>>>'Besides criticising the ITR revision plans, the same group of civil
>>>society organisations and experts also laid out a positive agenda for
>>> the
>>>Internet Governance Forum;. This seem to suggest that the kind of things
>>>we want to stop from happening at the ITU should rather happen at the
>>>IGF..... This is a wrong equation. ITU and IGF are entirely in different
>>>parts of a policy making ecology. One cant replace the other..... Any
>>> such
>>>indication should be clearly avoided.
>>>
>>>thanks
>>>
>>>parminder
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>>>
>>>> Here's a draft press release for tomorrow:
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>>>> http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/bestbits_pr
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for the delay, which was because I lost Internet connectivity
>>>> for
>>>> most of the day.
>>>>
>>>> Feel free to jump in and improve it; I'll print it when I get back to
>>>>the
>>>> hotel tonight, or at the IGF tomorrow.  We have hit 30 signatories by
>>>> my
>>>> records (Pranesh, does your list accord with mine?), and we are now
>>>> also
>>>> accepting endorsements, which can be added directly on the website:
>>>> http://bestbits.igf-online.net/statement/.
>>>>
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