[governance] Annan to establish international forum on internet governance

Adam Peake ajp at glocom.ac.jp
Fri Mar 3 07:23:16 EST 2006


Perhaps someone could write to Markus and ask him if CS may 
participate, if so how.  Or if Markus doesn't know, he'll know who we 
should ask.

Adam



At 6:35 AM -0500 3/3/06, Veni Markovski wrote:
>Dear Vittorio and friends,
>
>I think you are forgetting what paragraph 71 (or 72) says about
>enhanced cooperation - with "participation of relevant
>organizations". The CS and the IG caucus are NOT such organizations.
>Now, perhaps, you will understand that when I was pushing you to form
>such a non-profit, I must have been right. It's still not late, if we
>decide to form it today, and we can make it sooner, rather than
>later. That will give us the right to participate as IG caucus in
>this process.
>
>I haven't actually heard any opposition to the idea, just lack of
>initiative from the group to start the creation of the non-profit.
>
>veni
>
>p.s. there was a delay of one day of my mail postings yesterday - for
>some reasons lists.cpsr.org were unaccessible from my servers, so if
>you don't see it in the forum, perhaps you can post it with your answer?
>v.
>
>At 10:50 AM 03.3.2006 '?.'  +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>>Il giorno gio, 02/03/2006 alle 20.39 -0500, Robert Guerra ha scritto:
>>(quoting UN's press release)
>>  > On a separate issue, the Secretary-General has also decided to ask
>>  > Mr. Desai to consult informally on how to start a process aimed at
>>  > enhancing cooperation on international public policy issues related to
>>  > the Internet.  The Summit had requested the Secretary-General to start
>>  > such a process.
>>
>>I think that this is the troublesome part. It is now quite clear that a
>>second process is starting behind closed doors, with the sole
>>participation of governments, and who knows who else, to discuss about
>>ICANN reforms, GAC+ etc. This is totally contrary to what was agreed in
>>Tunis, and I think we should speak loudly and clearly against this.
>>
>>Unless, of course, someone has already been asked to participate in
>>these "informal consultations" on behalf of civil society, and we just
>>don't know.
>>--
>>vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----
>>http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Prima o poi...
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