[governance] Forum/oversight: Middle Ground proposal

[karen banks]

hi

we had an interesting discussion last night about the new 'middle ground' 
proposal from Canada/NZ/Aus/Switzerland/US/Singapore/Argentina/Uruguay - 
which, if you read carefully, is very familiar - many of the key points 
from the WGIG recommendations are there.. still has a few fuzzy bits but 
seems to have the support of the African Group at least..

we all had hard copy last night, but it's not online yet.. does anyone have 
a copy?

article in herald tribune .. re EU proposal

karen

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/29/business/net.php

EU and U.S. clash over control of Net

By Tom Wright International Herald Tribune
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2005
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GENEVA The United States and Europe clashed here Thursday in one of their 
sharpest public disagreements in months, after European Union negotiators 
proposed stripping the Americans of their effective control of the Internet.

The European decision to back the rest of the world in demanding the 
creation of a new international body to govern the Internet clearly caught 
the Americans off balance and left them largely isolated at talks designed 
to come up with a new way of regulating the digital traffic of the 21st 
century.

"It's a very shocking and profound change of the EU's position," said David 
Gross, the State Department official in charge of America's international 
communications policy. "The EU's proposal seems to represent an historic 
shift in the regulatory approach to the Internet from one that is based on 
private sector leadership to a government, top-down control of the Internet."



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