[governance] please read: APC text on Forum function

[Laina Raveendran Greene]

Agreed with you Lee. There is a need to remind people about the openess of
the Internet and the spirit in which it was created and spread around the
world. In our statement, we tried to remind delegates that the Internet was
created by individuals with a high sense of shared responsibility and trust,
and any efforts for IG, whether improving the status quo, creating a forum
and/or new oversight mechanisms, should all be done within these same
spirit.

Currently, as Amb Klarkin pointed out, we are at a unique juncture of public
and private international law coming together. It has happened before from
the 60s to 90s, with the rise of MNCs and international law moving towards
the application of "soft laws" and increase of private international law
applications. Now we have the civil society equation, which is new to some
agencies especially the likes of ITU. It is a very unique juncture of the
creation of a "new form of cooperation" between stakeholders and a new form
of "soft law" (even moving beyond what we have in PIL....a term used in
public international law vis a vis MOUs e.g. lke the one we had on GMPCS on
LEOs etc..).

Laina 



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Subject: Re: [governance] please read: APC text on Forum function

Karen, Bill,

I appreciate your intent Karen and APC's intent but agree with Bill that
'binding international agreements' on openness is a contradication in terms
that will never fly.

Language more along the lines that the forum's efforts should keep in mind
the need to preserve the Internet's essential features, such as, 'openness
etc..' might have the opposite effect of making agreement easier, since then
the forum is signalling the techies that it will not muck things up.

Lee

Prof. Lee W. McKnight
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
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>>> wdrake at cpsr.org 09/29/05 5:55 AM >>>
Karen,

> >In the context of the evolving public and technical policy landscape
of
> >the Internet there will be a need to concretize binding
international
> >agreements that relate to:
> >
> >-        the architectural principles of the Internet, including
> >interoperability, openness and the end-to-end principle

I am very strongly opposed to putting this in the forum, and believe it will
provide the USA and business with a big opening to reject the forum
outright.  I hope you will reconsider, it's dangerous.

Rest is consistent more or less with IGcaucus etc.

BD

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