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From: *Sean Zohar* <szohar at cigionline.org>
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Subject: GCIG Working Papers - Now Online
To: RAN Members <ran at ourinternet.org>, GCIG Commissioners and Observers <
commissioners at cigionline.org>

Dear Commissioners,

The GCIG Secretariat has issued several new working papers. Please find a
complete listing below of the papers and brief descriptions of their
content.

A Pragmatic Approach to the Right to Be Forgotten

By: Kieron O'hara, Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall

*This paper considers the shape that a “right to be forgotten” is taking in
the online world, in the aftermath of the Google Spain decision, in which
the Court of Justice of the European Union found (against Google) that
European data subjects had the right to request that search engines
de-index webpages that feature in searches on their names. This work
further discusses whether individuals might manage their personal data with
flexible architectures that could act as points of contact for those
wishing to use the data. In such a technological ecosystem, many issues
could be addressed within a system that respected the autonomy of the data
subject in providing limited abilities to control self-presentation. *

https://ourinternet.org/publication/a-pragmatic-approach-to-the-right-to-be-forgotten/

Education 3.0 and Internet Governance: A New Global Alliance for Children
and Young People’s Sustainable Digital Development

By: Divina Frau-Meigs, Lee Hibbard

*This paper examines education and its digital transition, mindful of the
post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. It discusses
a variety of perspectives and trends, arguing that the future of education
should be part of the global debate on Internet governance. It posits that
Internet governance offers a new form of legitimacy for children and young
people to go beyond their current “protected” status. Ten recommendations
are put forward, including the creation of the position of UN Special
Rapporteur on education 3.0 for children and young people’s sustainable
digital development, which could help to coordinate and promote coherent
and dynamic engagement of all stakeholders.*

https://ourinternet.org/publication/education-30-and-internet-governance-a-new-global-alliance-for-children-and-young-peoples-sustainable-digital-development/

Jurisdiction on the Internet

By: Bertrand De La Chapelle, Paul Fehlinger

*The cross-border Internet and its online spaces span a fragmented
patchwork of national jurisdictions. As connectivity and Internet
penetration increase, so do the conflicts between jurisdictions.
Twenty-first century digital realities challenge traditional modes of
international legal cooperation, revealing an institutional gap in Internet
governance that may be solved by drawing lessons from the technical
governance of the Internet. In order to properly address jurisdictional
tensions such as cross-border access to user data, content takedowns, or
domain seizures, this paper recommends the creation of issue-based
multistakeholder policy networks to develop scalable solutions.*

https://ourinternet.org/publication/jurisdiction-on-the-internet/

Patents and Internet Standards

By: Jorge L. Contreras

*In recent years, high-profile lawsuits involving standards essential
patents (SEPs) have made headlines in the United States, Europe and Asia,
leading to a heated public debate regarding the role and impact of patents
covering key interoperability standards. Enforcement agencies around the
world have investigated and prosecuted alleged violations of competition
law and private licensing commitments in connection with SEPs. Yet, while
the debate has focused broadly on standardization and patents in the
information and communications technology (ICT) sector, commentators have
paid little attention to differences among technology layers within ICT.
This paper helps establish recent discussions of patenting and standards
within the broader context of openness in network technologies and urges
both industry participants and policy makers to look to the success of
Internet standardization in a patent-light environment when considering the
adoption of future rules and policies.*

https://ourinternet.org/publication/patents-and-internet-standards/

Looking Back on the First Round of New gTLD Applications: Implications for
Trademarks and Freedom of Expression

By: Jacqueline Lipton

*The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the
body that, among other things, administers the domain name system with
respect to generic top-level domains (gTLDs) –– that is, the string of
characters to the right of the “dot.”* *This paper brings forward some
reflections on what has been learned from both traditional second-level
domain name disputes and oppositions to new gTLD applications, with the
expectation that these lessons can be carried forward into future
application processes for new gTLDs.*

https://ourinternet.org/publication/looking-back-on-the-first-round-of-new-gtld-applications-implications-for-trademarks-and-freedom-of-expression/

Tracing the Economic Impact of Regulations on the Free Flow of Data and
Data Localization

By: Matthias Bauer, Martina F. Ferracane, Erik Van Der Marel

*This paper explains how the economic costs of data localization and
associated regulations on the free flow of data affect downstream economies
in a group of emerging economies and the European Union. Emerging out of
this analysis is an overview of recent developments in policies regarding
data localization and associated data regulations for the group of
countries studied. In addition, an overview of regulations on the free flow
of data is provided for a number of countries that are not covered in the
empirical part of this paper, but should be of concern in follow-up
studies.*

https://ourinternet.org/publication/tracing-the-economic-impact-of-regulations-on-the-free-flow-of-data-and-data-localization/

Governance of International Trade and the Internet: Existing and Evolving
Regulatory Systems

By: Harsha Vardhana Singh, Ahmed Abdel-Latif, L. Lee Tuthill

*Until recently, policy makers and businesses did not adequately focus on
the significant overlap between Internet and trade governance, but with a
large and increasing presence of the Internet in global trade and
investment, there is a growing interest in examining the synergy or
conflict arising between these issues. This paper discusses these aspects
as well as the new trade-related concerns that need to be addressed,
including the difficulty of determining jurisdiction and rules of origin,
the classification of products and relevant disciplines applicable to them,
complications arising for competition policy and regulatory practices.*

https://ourinternet.org/publication/governance-of-international-trade-and-the-internet-existing-and-evolving-regulatory-systems/

Market-driven Challenges to Open Internet Standards

By: Patrik Fältström

*The success of the Internet as a dynamic foundation for building an
enormous variety of interactive services depends on interoperability, open
standards and the ability to innovate freely and provide services without
permission, all of which arise from its edge-oriented architecture. This
paper establishes some of the basic Internet principles that have enabled
innovation and interoperability, such as globally unique identifiers and
open technical standards. The paper makes recommendations for reversing the
trend toward fragmentation through the use of open-standard protocols, the
development of application programming interfaces as if they were
protocols, the use of open standards processes and the use of public
procurement to encourage openness.*

https://ourinternet.org/publication/market-driven-challenges-to-open-internet-standards/

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

All the best,

*Sean Zohar*

*Communications Specialist, Global Security & Politics *Centre for
International Governance Innovation
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