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

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 10/10/13 06:33, John Curran wrote:
> On Oct 9, 2013, at 3:02 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
>> Do I understand correctly: according to this the President of ICANN has just agreed with the need for external oversight of ICANN, and unnamed other organizations, involved in governance/management of the Internet, just as long as it is multistakeholder?
> It appears to be a significant effort to address Internet Governance 
> challenges, including acceleration of the globalization of ICANN towards 
> an environment in which all stakeholders (including all governments) can 
> participate on an equal footing...

It puts civil society to shame in how timid we, at large, have been in
proposing similar advances on the status quo.  (I have not made much of
a secret of the fact that I was disappointed in the number of
endorsements that the Best Bits statement on enhanced cooperation
(http://bestbits.net/ec) received, though in part I accept that this was
because the statement was simply too long.)

This has also, in one stroke, determined the IGF's future.  Of course
the writing has been on the wall for the IGF for a while now, but it has
now officially become irrelevant in terms of its larger role in
multi-stakeholder Internet governance as originally anticipated in the
Tunis Agenda.  Of course it will continue to have a role as a discussion
forum, but the momentum for it to fulfil a  larger role has moved elsewhere.

It also neutralises the effect of the old guard of the technical
community (ISOC mainly) at the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation. 
Whilst they can still oppose meaningful implementation of enhanced
cooperation reforms, this opposition is now utterly token and
ineffectual.  With Brazil (and ICANN!) having lost patience and forging
ahead regardless, this leaves anyone arguing against reforms at the WGEC
looking silly and irrelevant.

-- 

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