[governance] [WSIS CS-Plenary] Post mortem and next steps on IG

[Izumi AIZU]

My memo on Martin's talk is as follows:


----------
Jeanette
We like EU to adopt Canadian proposal. From one government to many 
governments, or from one to no government.

Martin
Do you really believe that no government involvement even vaguely possible?

-----------

I think we are mostly referring to root zone file oversight, and ICANN
oversight, possiblly.

Thanks,

izumi

At 14:31 05/10/02 +0200, William Drake wrote:

>Hi Jeanette,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org
> > [mailto:governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org]On Behalf Of Jeanette Hofmann

> > The Internet Governance caucus had a short meeting with the EU Troika to
> > discuss the EU proposal. Towards the end we discussed two options of
> > moving forward from the present unilateral regime. Control by one
> > government could be replaced by a many-governments model or by a private
> > non-governments model. When we asked Martin Boyle from the UK about the
> > reasons why the EU chose the first, he asked back: Do you REALLY believe
> > it would be possible to run the Internet without any government
> > involvement? (this is non verbatim, I don't recall his exact words) I
> > left this meeting with the impression that the EU is much more serious
> > about their proposal than I thought. This was more than a mere strategic
> > intervention as some of us suggested.
>
>Interesting to know.  I'd heard from others that the UK was probably not
>supporting this but just couldn't push the point as chair, and it has also
>bee suggested that it was sort of a rushed and maybe not entirely worked
>through, settled decision.  Would be important to clarify just how firmly
>united on the now semi-detailed proposal the EU is, which will have a big
>impact on the bargaining going forward.  I'd expect the US will at least
>try to pick off some friends and loosen things up, if not undermine it.
>If you hear anything more in Berlin or elsewhere do let us know...

_______________________________________________
governance mailing list
governance at lists.cpsr.org
https://ssl.cpsr.org/mailman/listinfo/governance