[bestbits] Re: [governance] Proposal by the Government of India to the WGEC

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 24 Nov 2013, at 9:07 pm, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:

> Dixie: 
> On the OECD principles - CSISAC did not endorse the principles, on the basis of the intellectual property rights provision.
> 
> Parminer:
> This is not true, Dixie. CSISAC did endorse them.
> 
> Wolfgang:
> Parminder, why you are distributing lies just to support your argument? CISAC did not support the OECD principles for two reasons: IPR and intermediatieries. 

This is a common point of confusion.  CSISAC did not support the Communiqué on Internet Policy-Making Principles, but it did support the subsequent Council Recommendation on Internet Policy-Making Principles, from which the objectionable IP language was removed.  So you are both right.

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