[governance] Re: SECOND DRAFT statement on enhanced cooperation

[Lee W McKnight]

Hey Wolfgang,

Re LOIs,  I agree they can be very lightweight and yet have significant effect in formalizing a still flexible and loose relationship between parties.  

Basically, we just need to be able to reach agreement on say 2 bullet points for a 1 page LOI.

But note the key caveat is both parties need to want to agree. 

So in case of ITU given the sector membership & dues issue, if say some foundation wanted to pay $ for IGC - or other civil society group - to join as sector member of ITU, that ITU could agree on probably. And an LOI could be helpful in specifying how cs is not quite your typical sector member.

But ITU will not want to agree on blanket free passes for cs folks, since as we all know from another vantage point say a hypothetical college prof looks like just another private sector/startup wannabe. 

On that note, I'm working on getting us all some cool new 'free' tools to play with to strengthen the IG Grid - ok maybe we will need another 1 page LOI ; ). Seriously, whether or not  we can get big E Enhanced Cooperation pushed ahead through UN processses, noone can stop us from - enhancing cooperation. 

Lee
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From: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" [wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de]
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 3:31 AM
To: Lee W McKnight; governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: AW: [governance] Re: SECOND DRAFT statement on enhanced cooperation

Thanks Lee

very helpful. I will avoid IG Web and use IG Grid (with references to you). IT isd better indeed. Much more precise and closere to my "spaghetti ball" :-))))

And indeed ITU-IETF is probably the first example, but it is because IETF is a "ITU sector member" which is not the case for ICANN.

Furthermore, we should think about the option that also CS organisations propose LOIs to other institutions.  Any ideas here?

wolfgang


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Von: Lee W McKnight [mailto:lmcknigh at syr.edu]
Gesendet: So 07.11.2010 01:58
An: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Kleinwächter, Wolfgang; Avri Doria
Betreff: RE: [governance] Re: SECOND DRAFT statement on enhanced cooperation



Wolfgang,

Agreed the ITU PP is a step in the right direction. Though in practice ITU & IETF have been - practicing - enhanced cooperation for years as was discussed a while back on the list.

Extending that more formally to a broader group of orgs is a good thing, but more of an incremental step than radical break with past practice. And it still leaves civil society in the cheap seats/as spectators at (most) ITU events, typically.

On another note - and no offense - but can we stop talking about at an 'IG Web' - that sounds so 1990s.

IG Cloud would be trendier but even vaguer.

I suppose IG Grid would be my preference, connoting simultaneous info and resource sharing across..the grid.

Lee


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From: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" [wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de]
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 1:19 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Avri Doria; IGC
Subject: AW: [governance] Re: SECOND DRAFT statement on enhanced cooperation

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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