[governance] Caucus Position on Oversight?

[Milton Mueller]

Surprisingly, I find myself in significant agreement with the first two
steps of Carlos's concept of an ideal sequence.  

>>> Carlos Afonso <ca at rits.org.br> 09/25/05 5:14 AM >>>
>- Agreement now on the immediate need of an advisory forum 
>(with as many additional functions as it is possible to negotiate 
>-- and these might happen in steps after the forum is created), 

>- Immediate establishment of the process towards and international 
>Internet governance convention, deriving from it the oversight 
>functions and mechanisms needed 

An major changes in oversight require careful negotiation of principles
and also careful limitation of the powers of governments over the
Internet. This requires a negotiation and a process by which governments
and citizens can ratify (i.e., voluntarily accept) such an agreement. 

>- The USA gets convinced that ICANN must become a true global
> body, host country agrement and all; this agreement means a 
>total autonomy contract between ICANN and the USA similar to 
>any country agreement with hosted international organizations 


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