[governance] WCIT melt down

Fri Dec 14 07:09:41 EST 2012

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

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> There is a lot of good stuff in the new ITRs.
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> A lot of countries did genuine negotiation and got to good provisions on
> things like emergency services, landlocked countries, IXPs.
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Yes, there was genuine negotiations. [Para 9 on the Draft resolution
Article 1 section 1.7 recognizes the sovereignty of member states. It is
also worthwhile noting that the Resolution does not have the same effect as
a Treaty and is merely there to create an enabling environment]

As for definitions - there was nothing on ICT and it was simply
Telecommuncations although there was a distinction between Government and
Service Telecommunications.

I was also happy with Para 34 on Article 4 section 4.3 on QoS. It was also
good to see Article 5B on Spam.

Article 6 on Taxation would be the most controversial one and one of the
core reasons why some countries won't sign - what will be interesting to
watch is the WTO space as well.

I found Article 7 interesting on Suspension of Services both partial and
temporary. I was extremely pleased to see Hungary's Proposal on Access for
Disabled Persons under Article 8B

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> Some of the worst things were avoided, like national IP networks, national
> control of IP addressing and naming and national control of routing.
>

 There is no appetite in my view for national control of IP addressing not
now or in the future. The countries are pleased with the way the RIRs run
their show.

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> But some problems persisted: provisions on security that went beyond
> robustness - what is that but content, on spam that includes analysis of
> content as its basis, and resolutions that give the ITU marching orders on
> Internet governance.  Basically enough was left in that was pernicious for
> the Internet that I agree that it is good that these issues prevented many
> governments from signing.
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> I expect over time some countries will sign when the spotlight is off
> them.  And some might even consider signing in the future if the Plenipot
> fixes some of the broken aspects (no inside knowledge, just guessing).
>  This story is not over by a long shot.
>
> Personally it was an exiting glimpse into the Cold War for the Internet
> and I am so glad I got to be there and hope to keep participating in it.
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> The main thing I think for civil society is to make sure we are there for
> the next acts.  I think we could have done a lot as participants who could
> have brought the voice of sanity to the discussion.  I think it might have
> helped if they had bothered to include our contributions in their
> discussions.  We have many differences of viewpoint, but we talk together
> more than they could ever imagine doing.  Our points of view have much
> greater nuance and reaction to the obverse than do the fixed national
> positions.  Not only do we need to be there, they need to have us there.
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> I suggest that as much as analyze the content of the ITRs and the circus
> that was Dubai, we figure out how to fix this.  Because it is only with our
> involvement that this will get fixed.  A large part of that fix, involves
> the IGF as a place that can give credible inputs to the operational
>  Internet Governance entities, and multistakeholder enhanced cooperation.
>
> Next acts: WSIS-10 Review , WTPF and IGF-13.
> We have lots of work to do.
> Isn't it exciting!
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> avri
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