[governance] Internet G8 meeting

[Roland Perry]

In message <4DBFA6B4.7090503 at itforchange.net>, at 12:24:44 on Tue, 3 May 
2011, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> writes

>We wrote to the UN asking for more spaces for civil society for the Dec 
>consultations on enhanced cooperation. What about this G8 Internet 
>meeting?

The G8's nothing to do with the UN, nor is there an assumption that 
rules of multistakeholderism can be imposed from one to the other. 
Indeed, many would regard it as a positive feature that organisations 
can have their own working methods independent from the UN.

 > This kind of thing was unthinkable a few years back.

It's very appropriate that such a G8 meeting emerges now, because a 
previous G8 cybersecurity initiative[1], which got up to speed with a 
meeting in Paris in May 2000 and concluded with a meeting in Tokyo on 
May 2001, was very soon stalled[2] when law enforcement's resources were 
diverted away from the Internet and towards terrorism after 9/11.

But the ground rules were written all that time ago, and not much has 
changed since.

http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/i_crime/high_tec/conf0105-3.html

[1] Full title: "Government/Industry Dialogue on Safety and Confidence
                   in Cyberspace"

[2] One of the few identifiable results of the work was the EU's Data
      Retention Directive.
-- 
Roland Perry
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