[governance] IGC statement to IGF MAG

[Milton Mueller]

Hello

Can anyone tell me, was Bill Drake's penultimate draft (below) of the
statement we want to make to the MAG transmitted to anyone? Was it
accepted by the group? Are our coordinators keeping track of this? Can
we ACT, please?


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(1) Plenary on Internet Global Public Policy

A call to "discuss public policy issues related to key elements of
Internet governance" is the first point in the IGF mandate in the 
Tunis
agenda. The Agenda deals at length with the question of new  global
public policy issues regarding IG, the possibility of new frameworks
and
structures, and the role of existing ones (e.g,  paragraphs 61, 69).
We
therefore believe that an IGF Plenary session should explore the
following topics: 

a) What is "public policy" on the Internet and when do we need to  use
global institutions to establish it? The Tunis Agenda  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?

b) 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?


(2) ICANN and Core Internet Resources

Core Internet resources should be discussed as a main session in the
IGF. Policy toward "critical Internet resources" are a major topic  in
the Tunis Agenda and the mandate for the IGF. Currently, name and
number resources are administered by ICANN and the Regional Internet
Registries. This session should discuss the policy issues and policy
making processes in these institutions. In particular, ICANN's  status
as an international organization, its representation of individual
users, and the changing role of the  GAC within ICANN should be
discussed. 


(3) Global Internet policies impacting access to and effective use of
the
Internet by disadvantage people and groups - The development agenda in
IG

"Under the general theme of access, we would like to have a plenary
session
devoted to the topic, how can global Internet governance policies and
practices have an impact on disadvantaged peoples' access to, and
effective
use of, the Internet and their access to knowledge? This panel would
try to
identify and explore the specific policies, institutional mechanisms,
resource allocation processes, property rights regimes and financing
mechanisms that are international in scope and can have a real affect
on
access to, and effective use of, the Internet."


(4) role and mandate of IGF

The Tunis Agenda mandated that the IGF should, inter alia, facilitate
discourse between bodies dealing with different cross-cutting
international
public policies and issues that do not fall within the scope of any
existing
body; interface with appropriate inter-governmental organizations and
other
institutions on matters under their purview;  identify emerging
issues,
bring them to the attention of the relevant bodies and the general
public,
and, where appropriate, make recommendations; and promote and assess,
on an
ongoing basis, the embodiment of WSIS principles in Internet
governance
processes. Since these critically important, value-adding functions
cannot
be performed by any existing Internet governance mechanism, nor by
annual
conferences built around plenary presentations from invited speakers,
the
purpose of this panel would be to foster an open and inclusive dialogue
on
how the IGF could fulfill these and other elements of its mandate.


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