[bestbits] [IRPCoalition] [governance] Request for comment on proposal for IGF multistakeholder opinions

parminder parminder at itforchange.net
Sun May 19 09:27:30 EDT 2013


On Sunday 19 May 2013 04:23 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On 19/05/2013, at 4:16 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net 
> <mailto:parminder at itforchange.net>> wrote:
>
>> To clarify, it this about gov participation in ICANN and other such 
>> technical management/ governance systems? That it appears was the 
>> original intention of the Brazilian proposal, along with proposing 
>> that somehow ITU takes a central role in enabling perhaps even 
>> fronting such participation.... Is this the main thrust here? If not 
>> what is this all about? What exactly is meant by 'range of 
>> multistakeholder Internet governance processes' in which governmental 
>> participation is to be integrated... Which processes are meant here.
>
> If we get the transcript then it will be easier to take the intention 
> straight from the horse's mouth, but I would summarise the first part, 
> which is the most operational part, as calling on the ITU to provide 
> capacity building for developing country governments to more 
> effectively participate in multistakeholder Internet governance 
> institutions including IGF, ICANN, IETF, W3C, etc,

If this indeed is the operational part of the statement, what is there 
to get so excited about it. What is of special significance here, I 
still fail to understand.

On the other hand, I still think the Brazilian statement was confusing 
and unclear in its intent from the start, and has become even more 
confusing in being edited down in an effort to negotiate its passage 
through WTPF...



> in their own right (ie. not fronted by the ITU; I don't think there's 
> any suggestion of that).  The second part is not really operational, 
> but is an expression of support for the fact that Internet governance 
> takes place in a networked manner across a number of multistakeholder 
> institutions, and that states are encouraged to participate in those, 
> in addition to their discussion of relevant issues at the ITU and in 
> the WSIS+10 process.
>
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