[governance] ITU IG Resolution

[wcurrie at apc.org]

>so the ITU is mobilising for a process of enhanced cooperation which the
UN SG failed to initiate in the first quarter of 2006.

how is the ITU going to get the UN SG to do this: by getting member states
into a process of discussion and agitation on the metter?

what do we know about the incoming UN SG's views on the ITU - is he likely
to allow the ITU to take a lead here?

will something happen in the first quarter of 2007? should the IGC prepare
to communicate with the incoming SG (both UN and ITU) about how this
process of enhanced cooperation may be started and how the Geneva
Principles on IG can be usefully applied?

willie
>
> Milton Mueller schrieb:
>> 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.
>
> It seems, the USG also bypasses ICANN and assumes that contracting
> governments have full control over the management of their ccTLD. One
> wonders what the ccNSO is for if the US government can negotiate all
> relevant matters in bilateral contracts, no?
> jeanette
>
>>
>>>>> 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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