[governance] Fwd: WCIT: What's happened in the first week

Adam Peake ajp at glocom.ac.jp
Fri Dec 7 03:44:30 EST 2012 

Kieren's doing a great job reporting on WCIT.

About "operating agencies", I thought the key text would be from article 6
of the constitution:
"The Member States are also bound to take the necessary steps to impose the
observance of the provisions of this Constitution, the Convention and the
Administrative Regulations *upon operating agencies authorized* by them to
establish and operate telecommunications and which engage in international
services or which operate stations capable of causing harmful interference
to the radio services of other countries."

When there is disagreement over text for ITRs, or inconsistency between
texts, the constitution prevails.  And the constitution can only be
modified in plenipotentiary meetings (net is 2014)

Bill, Milton and others who understand this telecom stuff: thoughts?  Any
advice we give delegations?


Adam




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    Halfway through WCIT... A rundown of the World Conference on
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     The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) has
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whom precisely the resulting international treaty apply to is decided.


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Your guide to WCIT
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Over 200 documents and thousands of pages. Here's how to make sense of it
all

 Full breakdown of ITR
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Every proposal for change, broken down by article and sub-article

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A simple guide to the conference next month

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It's a closed conference. But not if you follow this guide.

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dot-com domains for the next six years.

The current wholesale price for dot-coms stands at $7.85 and the company
had already agreed a six-year extension on its right to exclusively sell
the domains with DNS overseeing organization ICANN. That agreement mirrored
one signed in 2006 that allowed Verisign to raise the price by seven
percent in four of the six years the contract ran.
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increase".
                    WCIT and the Internet? It all comes down to this
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   The focal point for those fears has become a contribution by the Russian
Federation, sent on 13 November - 10 days after the announced deadline -
and then revised four days later.

Contribution 27 appears to confirm everything that people have been
worrying about - an effort to use a revision of an international treaty
agreed in 1988 to provide governments with additional controls over the
functioning of the Internet.

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Efforts to make the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) into a
supra-regional Internet registry have been ditched, at least for the time
being. Attendees at the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly
(WTSA) were surprised with a last-minute proposal, aggressively pushed by
the Arab States, that the ITU become a provider of IP addresses. Discussion
within Committee 4 had been focused on the allocation of IP addresses and
in particular the provision of IPv6 address blocks.



  Our predictions for
WCIT<http://dot-nxt.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1811915b93740665fec761e71&id=9586dbd1aa&e=d4d389892c>Foolish
as it may be, we have some predictions for what will happen between
now and the end of WCIT. Here they are:

   - Nothing radical will appear in the ITRs. Instead it will be agreed
   that they will be reviewed in four or eight years' time and a range of
   working groups will be formed to work on various issues and report to the
   Council next year, take it to the ITU Plenipotentiary for initial review in
   2014, and onto the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA)
   in 2016

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  Day 2: Put off to tomorrow what you can't do today After a busy start,
WCIT started to settle down into a familiar mode on the second day of the
conference. The main highlights were:

   - A bid by Canada and the US to get some key definitions agreed before
   work starts was pushed off until the end of the week
   - The meeting delegates all agreed that they agreed with freedom of
   expression and human rights but that they didn't want to write it into a
   telecoms treaty - a press release was produced instead...

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