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

[Carlos Afonso]

Anyway, I guess this is settled, and the challenge is now to have a 
good, diverse CIR panel in IGF Rio (please, no more Internet 101-like 
things, dummy's guides on how idiots we are in not believing the current 
system is perfect etc etc).

--c.a.

Adam Peake wrote:
> 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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