[bestbits] Four principles for presentation at meeting of Montevideo signatories this afternoon

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 20/10/2013, at 3:37 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jeremey,
> Could you please provide some background to this to help the understanding of those of us not in Bali? Thanks

A full update on the latest news about the Rio summit will be posted to the list soon (I think by Jochai Ben-Avie and/or Valeria Betancourt), and in the meantime for highlights you can take a look at the @_bestbits twitter account and other twitter feeds mentioning #bestbits.

But briefly, there was a meeting today held by the technical community organisations, to which we were invited on short notice, at which it was promised that they would explain more about the motivation behind their recent Montevideo statement through which they had strengthened their support for the denationalisation of ICANN oversight.

The four principles that I posted to the list were what we developed today for that meeting as some basic civil society principles.  Whilst we had attempted a letter, that proved too much, but at least we have just placed our stake in the sand in this pre-agenda-setting phase, and that's important.  We will continue working on a letter, or - it seems now - a statement, and it seems likely that will have to be done by Wednesday.  There'll be a get-together tomorrow at 4pm to discuss next steps (as I understand - but more on this anon).

In the end our principles were a little overshadowed by what transpired at the meeting - Fadi Chehadé revealing new details about the Rio summit on Internet governance that he and President Rousseff had recently announced.  Not least that they plan to produce principles, an institutional framework, and a decision-making mechanism - and that this will be done with (only) three representatives per country.  Selected by magic?  Who knows.

There is much more to be said about the whole thing (and it will be), but there's some background in a nutshell for you.  Others may have more comments to offer.

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