[governance] ICANN Delhi, Workshop: Update on Internet

[Lee McKnight]

Hi folks,

Jumping in on a couple points:
1) Linkage of IT, energy & environment is not a passing fad. There is a substantive connection which yeah coincidentally plays well on the international agenda this year. I can refer folks to my NSF keynote on the topic from a few years back if we wished to get pedantic, but can hear you all saying 'no thanks' even from here, so let's just move on.
 2) I have not heard yet why exactly 15 or 20 is a better number than 40 for the functions MAG may be asked to fulfill, not just today but in future.  A rebalancing should be asked for, and perhaps a more explicit recognition of the role of reps of IG institution.  
3) But agreeing on new definitions of 'technical community' or CS or  pretty much anything in 2 weeks time is going to be hard to achieve on a listserv; maybe worth trying but more important is to get most of Parminder's draft tuned by rough consensus hopefully so it can go forward as our collective views.

Lee

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>>> marzouki at ras.eu.org 02/12/08 12:10 PM >>>

Le 12 févr. 08 à 17:38, Milton L Mueller a écrit :
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Adam Peake [mailto:ajp at glocom.ac.jp]
>>
>> Markus suggests ICT and environment as a possible topic for the Delhi
>> IGF, he mentions comments by Fujitsu's chairman during the Rio
>> meeting (copied below.) This is going to be a key policy issue this
>> year: apparently came up in Davos, will be the subject of two ITU
>> meetings (as Izumi mentioned), a GIIC/WEF meeting, some talk it might
>> find its way into the OECD ministerial and perhaps G8.
>
> I know my cynicism will rankle many, but is this anything more than  
> yet
> another attempt to find a "safe" issue (like "access") that is both A)
> something no one can really disagree with and B) something the IGF has
> utterly no authority to do anything about?

No, it isn't more than this. And it will always be.. This year, ICT  
and environment is fashionable. Let's go for this, we wont be able to  
avoid this, so let's save our time and energy. They want ICT and  
environment, fine. But this has counterpart: we want physical  
infrastructure and we want DNS and other CI(Management)R. (and other  
issues, too:))

>   Why is it global IG and what
> can UN IGF do about it?

A lot, actually, but maybe not what is expected by those who propose  
this theme. We should have things to say on ICT and environment AND  
health. Especially when in India and some other countries people are  
dying from taking wasted computers to pieces. Milton, you may well  
have here the opportunity to say ranlke many by your aversion to  
taxation rather than cynicism:)) More seriously, this could also be  
an opportunity to enlarge the CS components interested in IGF and  
global IG.

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