[governance] RE: [bestbits] Rousseff & Chehade: Brazil will host world event on Internet governance in 2014

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Dear compa McT,

You being a rigorous techie, maybe you will not change your logical
view... :) And I understand there is a lot of people in all sectors who
feel disturbed by the emerging presence of Brazil and its concrete
proposals to finally move on.

At the very beginning Fadi describes the motivation -- Rousseff's
statement at the UN, her clear adherence to the basic principles most of
civil society defends (which she has repeated several times in her radio
program and her twitter @dilmabr), and her proposal to build a planetary
framework of rights. This did not come out of the blue, from a meeting
of IP addressers in a wonderful city called Montevideo. Do you think
Fadi just dropped by the presidential door in Brasilia, knocked and
entered to sell that proposal? :)

Anyway, it is relevant to understand that this is not a proposal for yet
another Icann meeting, or a reedition of the UN chatting space called
IGF, as both Dilma and Fadi made it very clear. It is a major
achievement that that motivation brought Icann to colead this effort
jointly with BR.

All the more so because, as you know, there are strong sectors within
the government who would love to bring the root-zone to the purview of
the ITU, who hate Icann, who do not like the pluriparticipative model of
governance we defend, and who are basically associated with the
transnational telecom oligopoly which controls the main networks in BR.
Dilma is courageously up against a huge wall here, to defend those
principles, and receiving Fadi and emerging from the meeting with thar
proposal was a major political milestone for her in those internal
disputes as well.

[] fraterno

--c.a.

On 10/10/2013 10:14 AM, McTim wrote:
> At 55 seconds in, Fadi says:
> "Her Excellency President Rousseff has accepted our invitation that we
> hold next year a Global Summit"
> 
> Seem fairly clear to me.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
>> McT, maybe you should watch the video a few times more... :)
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
>> On 10/10/2013 09:57 AM, McTim wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:50 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Why so pessimistic and cynical everyone.. I may be wrong but this isn't just
>>>> about ICANN, although hats off to Fadi for getting this going and putting
>>>> that into play…
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not pessimistic or cynical.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> But I would be extremely surprised if the Pres. of Brazil is going to invite
>>>> the world to Rio in April next year to discuss names and numbers. Rather my
>>>> reading is that she is by-passing the quite evident log-jam at the ITU, the
>>>> frivolities of the IGF, the now discredited "Internet Freedom" crusade and
>>>> the status quo which it was intended to cast into concrete errr… (non) rules
>>>> and regs.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It appears to me, after watching the video again several times that it
>>> is ICANN (and I assume the rest of the Montevideoans) that are
>>> spearheading this.  In other words the idea of the Summit comes from
>>> the T&A folks, not Brasilia.
>>>
>>>
> 
> 
>