[governance] Fwd: [IP] State Department Wants You on ITAC Advisory, Opens All ITU docs

Chaitanya Dhareshwar chaitanyabd at gmail.com
Sun Aug 19 01:33:20 EDT 2012 

Why 303 mil?? Why not 666 mil to reflect the "true nature" (kidding)

-C

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:59 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>wrote:

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> *From:* David Farber <dave at farber.net>
> *Date:* August 17, 2012 9:02:18 AM EDT
> *To:* "ip" <ip at listbox.com>
> *Subject:* *[IP] State Department Wants You on ITAC Advisory, Opens All
> ITU docs*
> *Reply-To:* dave at farber.net****
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> *From: *Dave Burstein <daveb at dslprime.com>****
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> *Subject: State Department Wants You on ITAC Advisory, Opens All ITU docs*
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> *Date: *August 17, 2012 8:54:53 AM EDT****
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> *To: *Dave Farber <dave at farber.net>****
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> Dave****
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> I don't often send my reporting for the list, but I think this one may
> interest people. Any American interested in the ITU/WCIT governing the net
> debate should join the mailing list of State Department International
> Telecommunications Advisory Committee. Simply send an email to join
> ITAC_Listserve_Requests at state. <ITAC_Listserve_Requests at state.gov>gov <ITAC_Listserve_Requests at state.gov>and you
> automatically have access to ITAC. ****
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>      Until recently, I was typically the only person to speak up at
> meetings who wasn't government or with strong dorporate ties. But they've
> now decided to reach out, looking to make the "multi-stakeholder" model
> more democratic. Anyone with questions can email me offlist adn I'll point
> them in the right direction. ****
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>     It's an opportunity to have influence beyond just the usual talk. db**
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> http://fastnetnews.com/policy/177-p/4826-itu-secrecy-disappearing-as-us-itac-open-to-all
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> ITU Secrecy Disappearing as U.S. ITAC Open to All****
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> Join me and make a difference. 303,000,000 Americans have just been
> offered access to the notoriously secret ITU WCIT documents. Just join
> ITAC, the State Department International Telecommunications Advisory
> Committee, and enjoy access. “It takes a simple email to Mr. Julian Minard,
> with a request to be placed on the ITAC listserv, based on some material
> interest in a given topic,” Paul Najarian of State writes. Simply send an
> email to join ITAC_Listserve_Requests at state.<ITAC_Listserve_Requests at state.gov>
> gov  <ITAC_Listserve_Requests at state.gov>and you automatically have access
> to ITAC. That's actually proving true, and email me if you need details
> how to make this work for you. Until now, no one knew about it so almost no
> one applies except insiders. It’s really that simple. I’ve recommended
> three people and they were all treated respectfully.****
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>   Uncle Sam wants you, as  Ambassador Terry Kramer makes clear below and
> confirmed to me in a brief phone call. “We welcome all interested
> stakeholders to participate in our WCITpreparatory process and help the
> U.S. Government form positions in advance of the conference.  We solicit
> this input and feedback through the United States International
> Telecommunications Advisory Committee (ITAC).” His colleague, Ambassador
> Phil Verveer testified to Congress, that ITAC is “open to all interested
> parties to review and advise on the regional and national contributions to
> WCIT as they are submitted.”
>     To my amazement, the discussions are substantive. With almost no one
> outside the system, it's become a convenient forum for State to share
> information with NTIA, FCC, and others, as well as two dozen or so
> corporate people who are on the inside. So it's actually a useful point to
> express your opinion. Being on ITAC gives you access to the main ITU and
> WCIT documents, along with a painful number of exceedingly boring emails.
> The meetings are in D.C. at State and generally have call-ins.
>     Until recently, I was the only person speaking at most meetings who
> wasn’t part ofgovernment or have strong corporate ties. No one else spoke
> up, for example, when U.S.proposals for NGN resembled a blueprint for the
> Great Firewall of China. (Our security agencies have similar requirements.)
>      I wrote that the ITU wanted to open the documents
> http://fastnetnews.com/itu/186-i/4822-itu-qmembers-free-to-publish-any-documentsq-and-they-will-im-told based
> on ITU sources and some comments from Europe. I had no expectation the
> U.S. would join actively, but that’s exactly what Ambassador Kramer promises
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> “Recently, the ITU Council announced its decision to make public one of
> the summary documents of proposals to amend the International
> Telecommunications Regulations.  In addition, at the recent meeting in
> Geneva, the Secretary General stressed that “all ITU members have full
> access to all WCIT-12 documents and can share them within their
> constituencies.”****
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> Accordingly, I want to take a moment to update you on the
> U.S. Government’s approach to stakeholder participation and input for the
> December conference and also my decision on how we will share and
> distribute WCIT documents going forward.
> First, we welcome all interested stakeholders to participate in our
> WCIT preparatory process and help the U.S. Government form positions in
> advance of the conference.  We solicit this input and feedback through the
> United States International Telecommunications Advisory Committee (ITAC).
>   I believe that the ITAC process is critically important in helping the
> U.S. Government convene the type of open, public, and necessary
> consultations from all stakeholders that helps strengthen our positions in
> advance of the WCIT.  The ITAC has advised the Department of State on
> U.S. participation in international telecommunications treaty organizations
> such as the International Telecommunication Union for decades and has,
> accordingly, been critical in the preparation of prior U.S. positions for
> meetings of international treaty organizations, developing and coordinating
> proposed contributions to international meetings and submitting them to the
> Department of State for consideration.  For the WCIT, the ITAC will
> continue to serve this critical role.  Therefore, we welcome any person and
> any and all organizations, whether corporate or non-profit, to participate
> in the ITAC if they would like to assist with the WCIT preparatory process.
> Second, all WCIT preparatory documents – including revisions of the TD-62
> compilations of Member States proposals, the final report of the Council
> Working Group, and Member State proposals – have been and will continue to
> be made available to interested ITAC member.   It is imperative that we
> ensure full consideration of a WCIT proposal’s impact on economic growth,
> the Internet’s openness, and the world at large and this is best done
> through the adoption of open and transparent processes that allow
> for wide consultation.  Thus, we will continue to share these WCIT
> documents with stakeholder so that they can provide more informed views and
> help us develop positions that reflect the input of the diverse range of
> interests in the United States.
> Starting this week, I will proactively communicate our positions on
> participation and document availability to underscore the US Government’s
> commitment to
> transparency.
> Terry D. Kramer
> U.S. Ambassador
> Head of U.S. Delegation’ ****
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> http://fastnetnews.com/policy/177-p/4827-state-department-actively-reaching-out-to-public-knowledge-a-others
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> *State Department Actively Reaching Out To Public Knowledge & Others<http://fastnetnews.com/policy/177-p/4827-state-department-actively-reaching-out-to-public-knowledge-a-others>
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> Monday, 30 July 2012 12:51****
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> Looking for civil society support at ITU. “The USG did reach out to us and
> that is good,” Rashmi Rangnath of Public Knowledge emails. “They are
> certainly interested in hearing what we have to say.” Another key D.C.
> public interest group confirmed to me State was reaching out to them as
> well.
> AT ITU and WCIT discussions, the U.S. "multi-stakeholder" model is just a
> veneer on corporate interests. A Verizon lobbyist sits on the board of
> ISOC, where’s he joined by a Comcast engineer; Comcast went to court to
> oppose even the very weak U.S. neutrality rules and led a massive lobbying
> campaign against neutrality. Another Verizon lobbyist is on the official
> U.S. delegation to WTPF. The U.S. ITAC until recently had dozens of
> corporate representatives and essentially no one from civil society.
> Terry Kramer, the head of the U.S. delegation to WCIT comes from
> Vodafone/Verizon. The State Department lead, Ambassador Phil Verveer, is a
> former Verizon/AT&T/USTA lawyer, although Verveer is rumored to be a lame
> duck these days. His telco ties certainly didn't hurt his chances for the
> job. Probably more important was that he and his wife were friends since
> college with Bill and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
>       U.S. credibility requires incorporating people like Gigi Sohn of
> Public Knowledge, ****
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