[governance] First Draft of Statement on US Commerce Department/GACchair intervention

[ian.peter at ianpeter.com]

Backing up what Izumi has said -


Quoting Izumi AIZU <aizu at anr.org>:

> Dear Milton,
>
> With all due respect, my first reaction to your draft is, no, this
> does not reflect my view or some other views expressed on this list.
> I have hoped that you would take divergent views into the draft
> so that it would cover and reflect the wide range of our views into
> common languages, but unfortunately I find this one still vastly too narrow.

A number of the views advanced in this list in the discussion thus far 
have been
ignored, thus making a CS response far more difficult. I would include

* warnings from Ewan and others that this is not about censorship (and I add
that the "fundamentally contrary to the principles of freedom of 
expression and
access to information" is overkill and innacurate)..

* warnings from Ronald to wait and see what actually happens to the USG/GAC
requests before reacting

* Carlos, Raul raising issues about the processes and advisability of the
original decision

plus a few other concerns here and there as well....



> Therefore, I  ask you not to try "represent" the Civil Society both
> at WSIS and ICANN with this draft. Honestly, the views are far more
> diverse than you have tried to put together, I am afraid. Of course,
> you are free to call for support and put this forward, but I don't think
> it's fair to label this as generic "CIVIL SOCIETY STATEMENT " as
> it stands.
>

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