[governance] ITU IG Resolution

[Milton Mueller]

Adam:
These free trade agreements that attempt to globalize US anti-privacy 
Whois policies are truly evil things, and indicate the degree to which
US of A policy is driven by intellectual property interests. 

But I am not sure what they have to do with the ITU, except that the
USA has been promoting WTO and trade agreements as a way of bypassing
ITU power over the international telecom sector for a decade now. 

>>> ajp at glocom.ac.jp 11/24/2006 6:04 AM >>>
>Hi,
>
>On 11/24/06 12:34 AM, "Bret Fausett" <bfausett at internet.law.pro>
wrote:
>
>>  That's an amazing resolution. My hat is off to anyone who can write
six
>>  pages on the management of Internet domain names and addresses and
not
>>  mention ICANN even once!
>
>Amazing perhaps, but also entirely predictable; did anyone really
believe
>the spin that the Tunis Agenda constituted a unanimous
intergovernmental
>bear hug for ICANN?  Moreover, while the TA called for enhanced
cooperation
>on public policies to be started by the UN
Secretary-General---involving all
>relevant organizations and stakeholders---by the end of the first
quarter of
>2006, it seems that not much has happened besides some sotto vocci,
>selective bilateral/small-n consultations.  Not surprising then that
>governments would want to see the agenda carried forward on a
multilateral
>basis in the ITU.  Of course, the "involving all stakeholders"
language may
>be of little practical consequence in the ITU without reforms that
will not
>be forthcoming in the near term.
>
>Some other notable bits of word-craft for deconstruction:
>
>"the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networks and the
Internet,
>taking into account the requirements, features and interoperability
of
>next-generation networks (NGN);"
>
>" Member States represent the interests of the population of the
country or
>territory for which a ccTLD has been delegated;"



This is an interesting problem.  The US (USTR) is writing clauses 
into bilateral free trade agreements requiring the ccTLDs of the 
country signing the FTA to adopt some form of dispute resolution 
policy. Example, words from the US/AU agreement goes on to also 
indicate whois "each Party shall require that the management of its 
country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) provide an appropriate 
procedure for the settlement of disputes, based on the principles 
established in the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy.

2. Each Party shall require that the management of its ccTLD provide 
online public access to a reliable and accurate database of contact 
information for domain-name registrants."

Search string such as "ccTLD free trade agreement" in google finds a
bunch.

I would think one way to read this is that US also thinks member 
states control ccTLDs and can enforce rules  on them.  Not what I 
thought the US position was in WSIS.  But I might be getting 
hot&bothered over a non-issue...

Adam






>" the management of Internet domain names and addresses and other
Internet
>resources within the mandate of ITU."  [phrase appears five times in
the
>text]
>
>Cheers,
>
>Bill
>
>
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