[governance] International Internet Treaty proposed by Europe

[Sivasubramanian M]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee spoke at the 350th Anniversary of the founding of the
Royal Society and voiced that " right to freedom as enshrined in Magna Carta
are as relevant and important today as they were back in 1215 when the
barons forced King John to sign the document - or else!"


http://isocindiachennai.blogspot.com/2010/10/magna-carta-of-internet-no-free-man.html

Sivasubramanian M




On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Bill Drake,
>
> Why don't we make this real? What if CoE actually elevates it to the status
> of a draft document, and works its way around to make this a 'draft treaty'?
> If that happens, it would be good work, very, very good work and good
> governance: Governments taking initiatives to protect the Internet from
> Governments.
>
> To quote from the artiile, "The draft international law has been compared
> to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which sought to prevent space exploration
> being pursued for anything less than the benefit of all human kind. The
> Internet Treaty would similarly seek to preserve the Internet as a global
> system of free communication that transcends national borders"
>
> If the Council of Europe, together with other like minded European
> organizations works on a document similar to the Outer Space Treaty, it
> would be giant step towards good governance.
>
> Sivasubramanian M
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> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:41 PM, William Drake <
> william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Still more confused and clueless reportage on IG….
>>
>> The author gets hold of a concept paper from a Vilnius workshop in which
>> Wolfgang, Rolf and a few other people put forward for discussion some
>> guiding principles concerning cross-border flows and mutual obligations
>> between states they hope could someday fit into a possible COE convention
>> (FWIW, having moderated the ws and been part of the dialogue around this for
>> awhile, IMHO this seems unlikely to go anywhere without significant changes,
>> and maybe not even then). Then he declares the paper is a "draft treaty"
>> that has been "proposed by Europe."  Then he proceeds to misconstrue what
>> the thing would do and concludes it "will effectively create a world
>> government of the Internet." These points he supports with extended quotes
>> of other people he ran into Vilnius who were actually talking about entirely
>> different matters...Europe, states, the Internet, regulation…it's all the
>> same thing, I guess.
>>
>> Should get him a lot of Google hits though, which presumably will be
>> welcome to a freelance journalist.  "As long as they spell my name right…"
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 22, 2010, at 4:59 AM, Lee W McKnight wrote:
>>
>> > Don't know about Vilnius.
>> >
>> > Several of us were talking about a an Internet treaty or framework
>> convention at earlier IGF's and on this list.
>> >
>> > But we were told that was impossibly radical/might upset some of the
>> powers that be.
>> > ________________________________________
>> > From: Louis Pouzin [pouzin at well.com]
>> > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:34 PM
>> > To: IGF Governance
>> > Subject: [governance] International Internet Treaty proposed by Europe
>> >
>> > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:14:33 -0700, Sylvia Caras  wrote:
>> >>
>> http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/9/20/international-internet-treaty-proposed-europe/
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Was this proposal announced or presented in an IGF session in Vilnius ?
>> by whom ?
>> >
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