[governance] International Internet Treaty proposed by Europe

[Sivasubramanian M]

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







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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