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

[Valeria Betancourt]

I agree with Anja on her proposal. Taking the opportunity not only for  
expressing our support but for outlining a civil society agenda for  
the summit would be an strategic move. + 1 as well on proposal re  
Chehade.  Do you think it would be one of the outcomes of our meeting  
in Bali?

Valeria

On 10/10/2013, at 0:47, Anja Kovacs wrote:

> I share Rafik's caution to some extent, but it is difficult not to  
> be enthused by this proposal. As Mike points out, it is a tremendous  
> opportunity for all of us to engage in this debate. Why don't we  
> start working on another letter to Rousseff, in which we support the  
> idea but also start outlining a CS agenda for the summit? What would  
> we like to see such a summit achieving? Maybe we can use our  
> discussions in Bali as a basis from which to start drafting such an  
> agenda.
>
> And maybe time for a word of appreciation to Chehade as well, at  
> least from those of us who believe that the internationalisation of  
> ICANN would be a good thing :)
>
> What do others think?
>
> Best,
> Anja
>
> On Oct 10, 2013 7:57 AM, "Jeremy Malcolm" <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
> 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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