[governance] what is it that threatens the Internet community or 'who is afraid of the IGF'

[Adam Peake]

At 11:43 AM -0400 9/8/07, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>There are people (governmental and business 
>interests and some in the technical community) 
>who want to prevent discussion of cIr,


I don't think that's correct, or if it is then 
it's a very few people (perhaps one person voice 
such an opinion in the recent meetings, the rest 
seem to see it as a legitimate subject.)


>or, failing that, neuter it, divert it or stack the deck.


This might be correct, and perhaps has been 
achieved by deciding discussion of CIR would 
follow the format of the the WGIG report 
paragraph 13 a:

"Issues relating to infrastructure and the 
management of critical Internet resources, 
including administration of the domain name 
system and Internet protocol addresses (IP 
addresses), administration of the root server 
system, technical standards, peering and 
interconnection, telecommunications 
infrastructure, including innovative and 
convergent technologies, as well as 
multilingualization."

But support for using this interpretation was 
pretty much unanimous (best I remember no one in 
the AG spoke against it.)  I think China proposed 
using 13 a in the open consultation last Monday. 
Odd world...

Adam




>Some of those people are represented on the MAG. 
>But IGF itself, if by IGF you mean simply the 
>Secretariat and the MAG as a whole, has already 
>recognized the need to discuss it. As with any 
>such institution, it will respond to a number of 
>voices and try to find a middle path agreeable 
>to most.
>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Kleinwächter, Wolfgang
>>
>>  Sorry, this was my impressio. If not even better. Than we have full
>>  consensus
>>
>>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Kleinwächter, Wolfgang
>>  [mailto:wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de]
>>
>>  >Milton is right and wrong.
>>
>>  >He is wrong whhn he says the IGF plans to block the debate.
>>
>>  When and where did I say this?
>>
>
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