[governance] International Internet Treaty proposed by Europe

[parminder]

Hi All

Is it possible to get a copy of the document that was circulated at the 
workshop # 60 held by CoE on the work of the expert group on cross 
border Internet. From the TOR document of the expert committee I have, 
this looks a very promising effort and I greatly look forward to the 
outcomes. It seems to address very well all key cross border issue - 
managing system security and stability, human rights on the Internet, 
cross border net neutrality and the global public value of the Internet.

Would like to see how this effort connects to the open consultation on 
enhanced cooperation that has to take place before the end of the year.

Everton Lucero of Brazil made the most important point (i read the 
transcript) at the workshop that it is important to get all countries 
involved right from the very start  in any such discussion on global 
Internet policy frameworks - whether hard or soft. The danger is that we 
seem to be going right down the path of cyber security treaty and the 
ACTA, whereby there is this new tendency of some more powerful countries 
negotiating treaties etc among themselves on issues and areas that have 
by default global application, and then offer them to other countries to 
opt-on, if they so please. Mostly, at least in the long run, there is no 
option.

In the plenary on 'IG for development' the issue of equitable 
participation from all countries in global IG came up  as perhaps the 
most prominent issue (atleast, in my view). We need participation of 
all, not just a selective stakeholderism. One of course has no problem 
with regional groups discussing about and negotiating their own policy 
frameworks, but the overall context has to be kept in mind. And this 
overall context at present is the fact that no progress is being made 
vis a vis the WSIS mandated process of enhanced cooperation, we need to 
know and understand why, and come out with our respective positions on 
taking the mandated process ahead, after, and as a consequence of, the 
slated open consultation enhanced cooperation.

I propose that the Caucus, as a global progressive civil society IG 
organization, makes a statement calling for participation of all 
stakeholders of all countries in a global process dealing with the kind 
of issues that the CoE process is dealing with, and that the respective 
regional and national (like the Brazilian one) processes feed into such 
a global process.

Parminder



On Wednesday 22 September 2010 12:38 PM, CW Mail wrote:
> Louis: Yes. Workshop #60. Presented by Council of Europe. The 
> transcript is published. (I went to a different workshop that day)
> I guess that someone on this list can provide additional information.
>
> CW
>
>
> On 22 Sep 2010, at 04:34, Louis Pouzin wrote:
>
>> 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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