[governance] European Parliament report on Internet governance

[Roxana Goldstein]

Hi Jeremy,
Thanks a lot for this meaningful info.
Could this be resend to other networks?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Kind regards,
Roxana



2010/3/19 Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>

> I'm forwarding the important message below, with permission from the author
> who is Advocacy Coordinator for the European Digital Rights Initiative
> (EDRi).
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>  *From: *"Joe McNamee" <joe at mcnamee.eu>
> *Date: *19 March 2010 5:09:17 PM GMT+08:00
> *To: *"'Jeremy Malcolm'" <jeremy at ciroap.org>
> *Subject: **RE: [EDRi-members] Internet governance*
>
>
>   Dear all,
>
>
>
> The European Parliament is currently preparing a non-legislative report on
> Internet governance.
>
>
>
> The Committee responsible (Industry) is going fairly slowly, but the MEP in
> charge has produced a fairly ill-informed document (in my humble opinion)
> which includes rather unwelcome, confused and contradictory thoughts, such
> as these:
>
>
> http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-438.468+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN
>
>
>
> 6. Bearing in mind that problems involving the Internet worldwide will
> continue to appear in forthcoming years, it is important that the EU
> institutions continue to work – as they are already doing on many fronts –
> on everything that may affect Europe’s values and fundamental rights’
> heritage to ensure these are accepted in the global management of the
> Internet. Progress must therefore continue to be made on the following:
>
> –guaranteeing plural and non-discriminatory access to the Internet,
>
> –defending the European view on Internet neutrality,
>
> –aspects connected with security in the face of threats or attacks,
>
> –protection of citizens’ right to privacy and resolution of questions as to
> who has jurisdiction and which law is applicable in deciding where cases are
> heard (given that the Rome II agreement expressly excludes non-contractual
> conflicts connected with the right to privacy),
>
> –protection of intellectual property rights and guarantees regarding access
> to users’ culture,
>
> –guaranteeing free competition,
>
> –combating crime and, specifically, protection of minors’ rights.
>
>
>
> The “Opinions” from other committees are generally bland and repeatedly
> call for “more transparency” from ICANN. My fear is that this chipping away
> at ICANN will lead us slowly in the direction of the ITU (lets not forget,
> without having nightmares, that the ITU and WIPO made a bid to fulfil the
> tasks now undertaken by ICANN!). To that end, I would like to draw MEPs’
> attention to the fact (?) that there aren’t major problems with ICANN’s
> transparency, while the ITU would be a disaster for transparency, at least
> for the following 3 reasons.
>
>
>
> Companies pay to participate in ITU discussions:
>
> http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/membership/cost.html
>
>
>
> This payment is actively sold by the ITU as a way of buying influence: They
> get “access to various meetings at which decision-makers and potential
> partners are engaged in discussions” (
> http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/membership/sector.html)
>
> .
>
> Even more surprisingly, the documents adopted by the ITU are not widely
> available and must be purchased. See, for example:
>
> http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.Sup6-200909-I/en
>
>
>
> As a result, I’m sure that there are members that know this issue far
> better than I do, particularly with regard to whether or not there are
> significant transparency issues in ICANN. I therefore need your feedback on
> a. if EDRi should be taking a view on this, b. if we should be taking the
> view described above or c. if we should be taking another view?
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Joe
>
>
>
>
>
> Joe McNamee
>
> Advocacy Coordinator
>
> European Digital Rights
>
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>
> B-1000 Brussels
>
> Belgium
>
> Tel: +32 2 550 4112
>
> http://www.edri.org
>
>
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