[governance] Proposal for the 23rd May IGF consultationand advisory group meeting please

[Milton Mueller]

Hello, all
I think we're making some progress and here is my contribution

On 4/27/07 11:33 AM, "Parminder" <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> This is my suggestion for the 'Global public policy on Internet -
issues and
> institutions' plenary theme for IGF

I believe you should start with the Tunis Agenda, and delete the stuff
in brackets:

[ Internet as THE infrastructure of an emerging IS brings on both new
 challenges for global public policy making, as well as new
opportunities of
 managing a global polity. What are these public policy issues, which
are the
 right/ legitimate avenues for dealing with them, and how existing
global
 public policy bodies may need to change and/or new ones take shape
 constitute an important set of questions, for which IGF is the right
forum
 for discussion, and if possible moving towards a consensus.]

This would leave us with (I have made some minor edits):

>"Discuss public policy issues related to key elements of Internet 
>governance" is the first point in the IGF mandate
> in the Tunis agenda'. The TA deals at length with the question 
>of new global public policy issues regarding IG and the possibility 
>of new frameworks and structures (and/or reinforcing existing ones)
>(p 61, 69). Among civil society and governments, there is a feeling
that 
>WSIS mandated the tasks of identifying these issues and improvising
global 
>governance structures to deal with them, but left it to
> post-WSIS processes to formalize. 

Then I would add:

This session should explore the following topics: 
* The TA distinguishes between "technical" and "public policy" issues,
and between public policy and the "day-to-day technical and operational
matters." What makes an Internet governance issue a "public policy"
issue, and what happens when policy concerns are closely linked to
technical administration?
* What was intended by the TA's call for the "development of
globally-applicable principles on public policy issues associated with
the coordination and management of critical Internet resources" and how
can this goal be pursued?

> IGF was envisioned as a key forum to
> enable/ assist this process (see for instance TA 72 b, that mandates
IGF to
> "facilitate discourse between bodies dealing with different
cross-cutting
> international public policies regarding the Internet"). This panel
will
> examine these key issues/questions as well as specific institutional
> arrangements and processes like that of 'enhanced cooperation'.

I think this material relates more to Bill's suggested topic, and is
not part of the public policy panel. This language should be moved to
#4, or else just use Bill's suggested language.


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