[governance] oversight

[Vittorio Bertola]

Il giorno gio, 27-10-2005 alle 15:29 -0400, wcurrie at apc.org ha scritto:
> What can be achieved at Tunis is:
> 
> - an agreement on the internationalisation of ICANN along certain 
> principles and timelines.
> 
> - an agreement about the forum, its mandate and composition.
> 
> What is not agreed (and is unlikely to be achieved) in Tunis is:
> 
> - any kind of UN role in internet governance oversight;
> 
> - any kind of inter-governmental oversight mechanism, such as the EU or
> Iran proposed (or apppeared to propose) at PrepCom-3.

I don't think you can agree on how to internationalize [the oversight
of] ICANN (as currently performed by the USG) without agreeing on the
inter-governmental oversight mechanism that should possibly perform it
(as the "no oversight" solution, which we all would prefer, is clearly
impossible in political terms).

This is why I would focus on getting a good agreement (for us!) on the
forum. That can be the key to move things forward and avoid a complete
failure.
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vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----
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