[governance] International Internet Treaty proposed by Europe

[William Drake]

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.
> ________________________________________
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:34 PM
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> 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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