{Spam?} RE: [governance] Where are we with IGC workshops?

[William Drake]

Hi,

I would suggest that before anyone marches off and starts doing anything we
reach closure on how many and which ws IGC will propose, hopefully focusing
on recently discussed options in which people have shown interest, a bounded
set, rather adding into the pot every idea ever floated and floundering
around for a week trying to narrow things down again.  Either way, it would
be preferable to have some clear consensus on the choices first.  I suggest
"just" three, in the hope that we could actually pull this off: mandate,
jurisdiction, and "internationalization," which needs better framing.

If there's agreement to do one on jurisdiction/extraterritoriality, per Ian
and contra the Bard, we'd need some lawyers.  There are a number of legal
scholars who've done good stuff in this arena, like Joel Reidenberg, Dan
Burk, Joel Trachtman, Jack Goldsmith, Mark Lemley, etc.  Alas, all I just
named are from the US and none have been involved in IGF, but there must be
folks elsewhere with similar skill sets who we might be able to persuade to
come.  Frankly, this issue area does require at least some specialized
expertise to tackle properly, and if we can't get enough of the right people
it might not be viable to do this time.

Another option would be to focus on some of the efforts to actually work out
international governance arrangements on jurisdictional issues, choice of
law, etc---UNCITRAL, the Hague Conference, etc.  Then there'd be more people
to choose from, e.g. Jamie Love, who I presume will be in Hyderabad.   I
also would imagine that ICC could help us find an industry person who works
on this nexus...

Bill


On 4/12/08 10:16 PM, "Ian Peter" <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

> Before we do huddle on this, if anyone on the larger group has suggestions
> for speakers we could invite pls send them either to me or to the list.
> 
> I did approach Justice Kirby of the Australian High Court who has spoken
> prominently on these issues, unfortunately he can't come. A good legal mind
> or two would be good for this one on transboundary data flow, transboundary
> jurisdictional issues etc.
> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: William Drake [mailto:william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch]
>> Sent: 13 April 2008 01:13
>> To: Governance
>> Subject: Re: {Spam?} RE: [governance] Where are we with IGC workshops?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 4/12/08 4:50 PM, "Parminder" <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> This started, though not formally, with Bret Fausett and Ian Peter
>>>> volunteering to develop description for workshop in IG and
>>>> jurisdictions. I volunteer too for this one.
>>> 
>>> Meryem, Bret and Ian
>>> 
>>> Would you all then get into a huddle as an e-group and start developing
>> this
>>> proposal. Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Anyone else who will like to join in? Willie you collated some of the
>> stuff
>>> from the list and were among the initial proposers. Will you like to
>> help in
>>> developing the proposal?
>> 
>> As I said earlier today,
>> 
>> On 4/12/08 10:03 AM, "William Drake" <william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> subgroups to push forward proposals, I volunteer to be on this one.
>> 
>> 
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