[governance] Internet humbles UN telecoms agency

[John Curran]

On Dec 13, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

> [Milton L Mueller] For an understanding of "what happened here" so forthcoming IGP blog post.

(including my response, included below)

Milton –

You might want to watch the video archive of the fourteenth plenary meeting (Thursday, 13 December 2012, at 19.30 hours GT), and in particular at the reservations expressed two hours in by the US, UK, Sweden, Canada, Denmark, South Africa, Netherlands, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Poland, etc. which occurred immediately after the WCIT plenary moved from operating under a consensus basis to utilizing Member State voting to force outcomes.

The WCIT conference, in the words of SecGen Toure, were to be discussions based on “consensus, in the true tradition of ITU.” The draft revised ITRs under consideration at the time still had significant aspects which dealt with the Internet, including an Internet Resolution, references to spam and security matters, all despite clear statements at the begin of the conference that the scope of the treaty would not include the Internet.

It should not be surprising that many participants left the WCIT once the WCIT abandoned these principles. In the end, 50+ countries do not appear to be signing the revised ITRs, citing the conference as a departure from the multistakeholder Internet governance. To ascribe this to a common desire to prevent non-discriminatory telecommunications access does not reflect a solid understanding of the nature of the proceedings as they occurred.

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN


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