[governance] Need Help - History of Internet Governance

Thu Oct 6 14:52:38 EDT 2005

I saw the minutes of the 1998 Singapore meeting on line on the Internet.

So if Paul looks on line it is probably possible to find some of the
documents.

with best wishes

ronda

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Laina Raveendran Greene wrote:

>
> Dear Paul,
>
> Ok. I will do my best to find them but most of them are filed as public
> record on DOC sites, or on the Internet. Initially we did exploratory work
> under APNIC, but once we saw it handled more than just IP addresses, it was
> conducted under APPLe and APIA, which involved many of the founders of APNIC
> as well. It was kind of decided informally amongst these groups,  that
> business issues fell under APIA, legal and policy under APPLe, research
> under APNG, IP address management etc under APNIC, etc etc. Hence APNIC
> began to be less involved until you took up this banner again recently.
>
> As for APPLe and APIA- Once Izumi and Pindar continued this issue under
> APIA, taking over from what I had started, I decided not to further it
> within APPLe. Also, it was obvious from the fact that ICANN was NOT created
> out of all those open consultaitons, and I felt we had wasted our time, I
> decided that only those with the clout to lobby the US DOC had any impact.
> So I pretty much advised others in my circles to lay off, unless they had
> clear interests, clear resources to lobby DOC and attend all the ICANN
> meetings in exotic places. The baton hence was carried forth by you, Pindar
> and Izumi for Asia Pacific, who were better funded than APPLe. I understand
> that APIA has also since lost interest in this issue as it does not have a
> clear impact on many of their members and hence GLOCOM and others continue
> this banner of being engaged and keeping others informed.
>
> So yes, this was before your time.
>
> FYI- I was one of the persons who helped create the formal org of APNIC from
> just one person running it, and I remained on as policy advisor for the
> first few years. APNIC supported the formation of APPLe (Asia Pacific Policy
> andLegal Forum) after it had started under APNG back in Jan 1996 and still
> runs its mailing list. Those activities and discussions on Internet
> Governance are all archived within APNIC. Furthermore, I was sent by APNIC
> to review matters as policy advisor of APNIC to see if it impacted APNIC
> members. I visited Ira Magaziner back in July 1996 (I believe), helped
> organise the first roundtable session on this issue during INET'96 with
> major players from gov, Internet bodies and GLOCOM sponsored that
> (transcript of that used to be on GLOCOM site, and also organised with APNIC
> and APIA support having Ira Magaziner to the Asia Pacific region for a
> regioanl consultation, which I helped organise during APRICOT'97. We did
> manage to make some impact on the Green Paper which many of us felt were
> reflected in the White Paper. The transcript of that meeting is public
> documents on the Internet. There are many more others but I am not sure I
> saved them all since most of these were either published or done verbally. I
> will check if I have any to send on, but you could also do a google on it
> too.
>
> Hope this helps. And yes I will keep in touch.
>
> Thanks for asking,
> Laina
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Wilson [mailto:pwilson at apnic.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 8:58 AM
> To: Laina Raveendran Greene; 'Jovan Kurbalija'; 'WSIS Internet Governance
> Caucus'
> Cc: igdvd at diplomacy.edu
> Subject: Re: [governance] Need Help - History of Internet Governance
>
> Hi Laina
>
> I'm not aware of work you've done for APNIC, it must have been before my
> time.
>
> But I'm always interested to update our archives, so if you still have
> copies of these papers, please send me one!
>
> Thanks,
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Paul Wilson, Director-General, APNIC                      <dg at apnic.net>
> http://www.apnic.net                            ph/fx +61 7 3858 3100/99
>
>
>
> --On Thursday, 6 October 2005 8:47 AM +0200 Laina Raveendran Greene
> <laina at getit.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear Jovan,
>>
>> Interesting indeed.Gladto hear Shahid is doing something with you. FyI
>> back in 1998, I worked with Gabriel Acascina, from  APDIP-UNDP to make
>> a multimedia CD called 'The Internet for Policy Makers', sponsored
>> also by Cisco.  Much of it is still valid. It uses animation,
>> graphics, video, etc to explain dift concepts visually and using
>> analogies. Happy to share this if it helps. It was done using
>> Macromedia Director though. About 5500 copies were distributed in Asia
>> from 98 to 2000. This was usedto help countries thru the earlydaysof
> consultations, including the IFWP process.
>>
>> For policy papers- I also have many submitted papers to Harvard Inf
>> Project, Dept of com, OECD, APEC,ITU,WIPO, etc on behalf of APPLe,
>> APNIC and APIA. Check out also the domainname handbook,Cook report and
>> ICANN watch 4 historical issues.
>>
>> Laina
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org
>> [mailto:governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of Jovan
>> Kurbalija
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 9:49 PM
>> To: 'WSIS Internet Governance Caucus'
>> Cc: igdvd at diplomacy.edu
>> Subject: Re: [governance] Need Help - History of Internet Governance
>>
>> Thank you for your replies on the evolution of the Internet. I forgot
>> to send more info about IG DVD. Here it is...
>>
>>
>> IG DVD (co-production by Diplo and UNDP-APDIP) is a multimedia tool
>> for exploring issues surrounding Internet Governance. It may be used
>> for training, research and general awareness building.
>>
>>
>> IG DVD consists of the following segments:
>>
>> FILM: The film introduces issues related to Internet Governance.
>> More than 30 leading policy makers and academics share their views on
>> a whole array of questions related to Internet Governance. There will
>> be also multimedia materials received from GKP, UNDP APDIP and ICANN.
>> The film will last 52 minutes.
>>
>>
>> COURSE: The course builds upon Diplo's existing e-learning module on
>> Internet Governance. It is divided into five baskets: infrastructure
>> and standardization, legal, economic, development, and socio-cultural.
>>
>>
>> LIBRARY: The Library contains e-books, articles, policy papers and
>> reviews on Internet Governance. Particular attention is given to the
>> Asia-Pacific region with material from the UNDP's Asia-Pacific
>> Development Information Programme.
>>
>> IMPORANT: If you would like to contribute e-books, articles, policy
>> papers to the IG DVD Library please send e-mail to igdvd at diplomacy.edu.
>>
>>
>> QUIZ: The quiz serves a dual purpose. It can be used at the start of
>> each chapter to identify the key issues and learning objectives; and
>> it can also function as a revision exercise for each completed chapter.
>>
>>
>> If you want to receive IG DVD please send an e-mail with your address
>> to igdvd at diplomacy.edu. If you will be in Tunis you can receive your
>> copy of DVD there.
>>
>>
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