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

Mon Apr 12 02:03:51 EDT 2010

Hi Tom,

I'm following your approach for an IGF workshop. Is there any place for the
.berliners in that?

Best wishes from Berlin

Dirk

Von: Thomas Lowenhaupt [mailto:toml at communisphere.com] 
Gesendet: Sonntag, 11. April 2010 20:52
An: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Jeremy Malcolm
Betreff: Re: [governance] CORRECTED Workshop Proposal for Vilnius -
City-TLDs: Impact, Best Practices, Governance

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

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From: Jeremy Malcolm <mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org>  

To: governance at lists.cpsr.org ; Thomas <mailto:toml at communisphere.com>
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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