[governance] Formal IGC response to IBSA proposal ahead of 18-19 Summit?

[McTim]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

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> The IGF is not supposed to produce outcomes, but is supposed to increase
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> *[Milton L Mueller] I don’t understand why this restriction applies to IGF
> but not, say, to IETF, ARIN, ICANN or APNIC. In other words, why can a bunch
> of people get together at an IETF meeting, come to an often difficult and
> painful agreement, and issue a standard, compliance with which is completely
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Do you mean an RFC? BCP?  These need to be published via the RFC Series
Editor process.


> * and the IGF can’t do the same? IGF has no binding legal or regulatory
> authority, unlike ICANN, so what is to be feared from allowing it to issue
> recommendations, as the WGIG did?*
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creeping intergovernmentalism I think is to be feared.  I think the national
IGF could produce some kind of recommendation to a national authority.
 Regional and global IGFs producing rec would be less useful IMO.

If the global IGF had a body (plenary?) that could come to a consensus on an
issue, then some states would want that pushed to the UN GA for
ratification, with all that entails.

I think you also have a healthy skepticism about this type of outcome.


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> I think it incumbent upon those who want a new body or bodies to spell out
> EXACTLY in which areas there are gaps that need filling, how such a new body
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> Clearly, a takeover of ICANN/IETF/W3C/RIRs, etc by a multilateral body (as
> proposed by IBSA) will not fill any gaps.  It's just a power play.****
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> *[Milton L Mueller] Clearly it would be. But any attempt to tell the
> fairly balanced group at IGF that they cannot come to an agreement and issue
> recommendations is also a power play by status quo groups to keep others out
> of the game.*
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or an attempt to hew to the TA mandate.

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Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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