AW: [governance] Re: SECOND DRAFT statement on enhanced cooperation

["Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"]

Hi all
 
It makes little sense to continue a theoretical discussion on "enhanced cooperation" when the practical process is moving forward and is creating new facts and opportunities. Do not underestimate the outcome of the ITU PP in Guadalajara with regard to "enhanced cooperation". In my eyes this is really a door opener and a breakthorugh towards a new more issue related "enhanced cooperation" among all players. The fact that the ITU calls in a resolution, adopted by all its 193 member states, for greater "collaboration and coordination" (remember our EC³ definition of enhanced cooperation from 2007) between the ITU on the one hand and ICANN, RIR, W3C, IETF and ISOC (on a reciprocity basis) on the other hand is very remarkable. If you take it seriously what Toure told Kieran Mc Carthy in his interview and look into Beckstroms letter to the ITU from June (published only recently) than you can see that "enhanced cooperation" is moving forward in the right way and gets substance.  
 
We did not discuss here the idea to create a network of formal arrangements, something like an "IG Web", among all these governmental and non-governmental players. UNESCO (an intergovernmental organisation) and ICANN (a private corporation) created an interesting model of a formalized IG oriented mutual bilateral relationship. The "Letter of Intent" (LOI), signed in Vilnjus, is a good source of inspiration, also for a formalization of the ICANN-ITU relationship. Will we see more of them, also with other players? Probably we will see the emergence of a network of fomalized bilatertal relationship in a very multilateral/multistakeholder environment. I called this previously the IG "Spaghetti Ball". So enhanced cooperation is moving foreward. 
 
Wolfgang
 
 
EC³ was defined - in an expert meeting during following the 2007 Summer School on Internet Governance as follows "Enhanced cooperation in Internet Governance is the enhanced communication, coordination and collaboration (EC³) among non-govenrmental and inter-governmental institutions and organisations in developing norms, principles, programmes and procedures for the governance of the Internet in an informal or, when and where needed, formalized way." 

 
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