Internet governance principles thread

[Jeremy Malcolm]

This is a counterpart to the previous thread, for ideas about what
should go into the Internet governance principles statement for the IGF
that we develop at Best Bits.  Whilst we will be working on this
face-to-face, it is sensible not to cram our work into one session when
preparatory work can be done online.

Indeed there has already been a lot of work done on Internet governance
principles, some of which we have discussed here already, including that
of the IRP Coalition (the "punchy" version is found at
http://irpcharter.org/campaign/ - these are based around substantive
human rights) and the Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on
Internet governance principles (found at
https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1835773, scroll down - these give
more emphasis to governance norms).

Some may ask, what is the purpose of the Best Bits Internet governance
principles that is not served by any existing document?  After all, one
of the purposes of Best Bits is to facilitate consolidation of our
efforts where appropriate, rather than further fragmentation.  The
answer is that there is still no broad civil society statement of
principles that is:

  * from civil society (the IRP document is multi-stakeholder, the CoE
    one is governmental); and
  * diverse (the Declaration of Internet Freedom was mostly drafted in
    the US); and
  * is addressed to the IGF as our input into what is hoped will become
    a multi-stakeholder statement of principles (or "Framework of
    Commitment" as Wolfgang calls it) in 2014.

That said, we don't want to reinvent the wheel and we do want to draw
upon and acknowledge existing work.

So, please use this thread to discuss ideas, and once they are more
progressed, some draft text could go into a (currently empty) pad at
http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/IG-principles.

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