[governance] International Internet Treaty proposed by Europe

[Meryem Marzouki]

Just seen this message from Bill after having sent my own reply on  
this subject. Couldn't agree more..
Best,
Meryem

Le 22 sept. 10 à 09:11, William Drake a écrit :

>
>
> 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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