[governance] CORRECTED Workshop Proposal for Vilnius - City-TLDs: Impact, Best Practices, Governance

[Thomas Lowenhaupt]

CORRECTION - In my last paragraph the IGF should have been IGC. I've corrected it in the below.

Jeremy,

You said:
  It would be a worthwhile workshop given the right panelists.  But are you looking for the IGC to put its name to this, or is it a workshop that you would organise, on which you are just seeking comments?
My hope is that the IGF will put its name on this. In the past I've failed to generate much interest here on city-TLDs, but would appreciate any and all levels of contributions to the proposal. And that extends to locating the "right panelists." In my early search in this regard my ideal candidate informed me that her first day of class is September 14, and that she is therefore not available. I hope this is not a global problem for participants from academia. 

I'm a bit unsure of the thrust of your closing paragraph, so will provide two answers. I support the 3 workshop proposals as recently posted, and we would be honored to have our organization listed as a sponsor. As to the future of our proposal: I was encouraged to pursue it in correspondence that resulted from my recent attendance at Under-Secretary-General Sha's IGF briefing at the U.N. So if it's not supported here, I would explore other channels for its submission. But I would be delighted to work with IGC to more fully develop and present this workshop proposal, and I would be deeply honored if we were to be one of many IGC organizations supporting it.

Best,

Tom Lowenhaupt
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeremy Malcolm 
  To: governance at lists.cpsr.org ; Thomas Lowenhaupt 
  Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 5:48 AM
  Subject: Re: [governance] Workshop Proposal for Vilnius - City-TLDs: Impact, Best Practices, Governance


  On 11/04/2010, at 11:28 AM, Thomas Lowenhaupt wrote:


    Having spent a decade working toward the time when TLDs would become available to cities, and with the time of their arrival (possibly) at hand, little guidance has been made available to those interested in developing TLDs that serve the interest of city residents and organizations. I'd like to draw on the wisdom of the list in formulating a proposal on city-TLD best practices and governance for the IGF's Vilnius Conference. I think the recent McTim thread "privatizing cc TLDs" primed the discussion on this issue.

    Below is a draft of an IGF proposal for Vilnius. Comments appreciated.


  It would be a worthwhile workshop given the right panelists.  But are you looking for the IGC to put its name to this, or is it a workshop that you would organise, on which you are just seeking comments?


  Excluding this one, we have three on the table:


  1. Revolutionary Internet Governance Ideas that can help change the Developing World
  2. Successes and failures of Internet governance, 1995 - 2010, and looking forward to WSIS 2015
  3. Transnational enforcement of a new information order – Issues of rights and democracy


  Unless there are real objections, I think we should put them all forward now even though they are not fully-formed, so that we can leave our options open.  In all likelihood not all three will be accepted, and/or we will be asked to merge them with other workshops.  For this reason it is not worth agonising over the wording or the composition of the panels yet.


  Please let me know if you object to this course of action - and also if you want to list your organisation as a co-organiser.

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