[governance] Roel of Govenrments

["Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"]

Milton L Mueller: 
I think a WS on the role of Government in IG is useful for the IGF, and  for civil society to be the initators. I see echoes of this theme in current discussions of G7-G20, discussions of ICANN-GAC, discussions of different actions of national governments, forum shopping, etc.

Ralph:
This would spark an interesting discussion, indeed. But please do not equate "Internet Governance" with "ICANN" and only talk about the MAG and the JPA. ;-)

Wolfgang:
The pressure for governmental involvement in Internet Governance does not come from ICANN or IGF, it comes from the reality of life. Internet has left already long ago the microcosm of the technical and other limited communities and is touching the big macrocosm of the political, eocnomic and social problems of the world.  If governments are dealing with security and economic stability the Internet willö become unavoidably part of their policy. What I expect is that we will see soon something what I have labeld IG 20, that is a governmental G 20 working group dealing with security and other issues related to the Internet. We will discuss this in a special session during the forthcoming 10th meeting of the ICANN Studienkreis in Barcelona, October 15 - 16, 2009. A workshop under the 4th IGF would be more than appropriate.
 
Wolfgang 
 
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