AW: [governance] The Bled Declaration - a new internet, or a

[Kleinwächter, Wolfgang]

Robert Guerra [15/05/08 14:12 -0400]:
A colleague has just mentioned let me know about the EU -  Bled > > Declaration. At first glance, it sounds like re-inventing the Internet > > into a centrally controlled network.  Does anyone on the list know more about it? 
http://www.future-internet.eu/index.php?id=47


Wolfgang:
I was in this conference (as a member of an EU FP 7 project). This was an official EU meeting which took place under the Slovenian Presidency and united a large number of Internet research projects financed by the FP 7 programme of the EU. This was not an academic but more a political conference. It was more presentation. http://www.fi-bled.eu/programme.php. First day from political leaders and other non-European projects, including FIND, GENI and AKARI. Second and third day presentations by individual members of the FP 7 projects. There was no real discussion. But what I observed was a deep a split. Some groups are enthusiastic about "clean slate" (mainly supported by the telcos) , other are more than sceptical. The whole conference was dominated by engineers. The so-called "socio-economoc dimension" was not included into the agenda on a prominent place. My impression was that the EU Commission wanted to position itself as a "big player" in NGN discussion between the US (FIND, GENI) and JP (AKARI etc.) projects. Also the idea of the proposed "European Future Internet Assembly" is rather vague. I proposed to link this to the proposed "European Internet Governance Forum" (by the European Parliament), but EU Commission officials said this are two different things. However, I discovered in the final "Bled Declaration" that the IGF is now mentioned. Hopefuklly this can be seen as an invitation for a cross-disciplinary dialogue. The text of the "Bled Declaration" was not discussed or negotiated in Bled. It was just prepared by the Commission.  Robert is right that the document gives the impression of "re-invention of the Internet". BTW this was also the case during the recent ITU Caleidescope conference in Geneva, May 12 - 13, 2008. http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/uni/kaleidoscope/programme.html There timeline is 2020. And again, these groups are not linked to the IG folks grouped around ICANN, IETF, IPv6 and iDNs. 
 
Best regards
 
wolfgang
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