[governance] WCIT melt down

Fri Dec 14 07:12:37 EST 2012

http://www.itu.int/en/wcit-12/Pages/statement-toure.aspx

Statement from Toure.

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.
>>
>> A lot of countries did genuine negotiation and got to good provisions on
>> things like emergency services, landlocked countries, IXPs.
>>
>
> 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
>
>>
>> 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.
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> avri
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