[governance] enhanced cooperation

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 12/04/2008, at 9:39 PM, Parminder wrote:
>
> BTW, I am not sure if any of you have seen a very significant  
> posting on EC athttp://wiki.tools.isoc.org/Policy_Activities/UN_report_request 
>  .
>
> ...
>
> I read it as an effort to parcel the EC concept exclusively as a  
> ‘bottom up’ autonomous set of activities among existing  
> organization, which to me more or less means nothing (sorry for  
> being a bit skeptic) and which serves to push away the issue of real  
> political oversight of the these existing organizations. And I  
> understand that this is an important issue about which we are  
> concerned. Recent emails by Wolfgang and Michael Leibrandt also  
> discuss this issue.


Quite remarkable.  And the response is obvious, surely: ISOC (if it is  
the sole civil society [sic] organisation contacted by the Under- 
Secretary-General) should write back to state something like this:

"We have little progress to report towards the development of a  
process of enhanced cooperation on  Internet governance between all  
relevant organisations, as we interpret the Tunis Agenda to require  
that this process be undertaken within an overarching framework of  
multi-stakeholder policy oversight that does not yet exist.  We  
suggest that, consistently with the terms of the Tunis Agenda, the  
Internet Governance Forum should be constituted as the venue within  
which for policy development to be led by governments in consultation  
with all other stakeholders."

OK, so that last part, in particular, doesn't even remotely accord  
with ISOC's views, but you get the gist.

-- 
Jeremy Malcolm LLB (Hons) B Com
Internet and Open Source lawyer, IT consultant, actor
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