[governance] Caucus process comment

[Carlos Afonso]

I agree with Ralph's cautious (and justified by hard experience!) approach.

--c.a.

Ralf Bendrath wrote:

>>Vittorio wrote:
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>>
>>>a sort of "bill of rights" of Internet users, ie the Internet version
>>>of the UDHR,
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>>>
>
>I strongly suggest to not do anything in this direction without close
>coordination with the Human Rights Caucus. I know that Rikke Frank
>Joergensen is currently finishing an edited volume (in Bill's MIT series)
>on Human Rights in the Information Society. There is a lot of stuff out
>there already.
>Another thing is the debate around communication rights that might start
>again then. Not sure if this would mess things up or bring in some
>perspectives...
>
>Wolfgang replies:
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>
>>This could be good idea and initiative. We have Barlows Declaration of 
>>Cyberindependence, which needs some streamlining after eight years.
>>    
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>
>The Barlow declaration is a historical document from the heights of cyber
>self-regulation. I don't think it can simply be updated under current
>circumstances.
>
>Pragmatically speaking, I would recommend to start from the documents this
>caucus has already produced and polish those so everyone more or less agrees.
>
>Everything further is a bit too much work for now and as I said needs more
>coordination with other caucuses. We could / should keep that project in
>mind for PrepCom3 and the summit, as we will probably need an independent
>CS document for the summit again.
>
>Ralf
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